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  1.                                                                                 GRAPEVINE, Page 35
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  4. By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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  7.     GENEROUS RETIREE OF THE WEEK: EVERARD BIERER
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  9.     The 84-year-old former Pan Am pilot and stock-market
  10. investor tried to get his fellow retirees to pony up $1 million
  11. to help save the struggling airline. When no one would chip in,
  12. Bierer wrote his own check for $400,000, which the company will
  13. use to buy pilot-training computers.
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