CONTACTS: Influence, thy name is Newport Beach,...
CONTACTS: Influence, thy name is Newport Beach, where even the volunteer social workers have clout. . . . All-volunteer Street People in Need is throwing its first Newport-style fund-raiser, a celebrity auction Jan. 31. The top item? A private lunch with Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca. . . . It was arranged by volunteer Mary Sabatasso. “Lee is engaged to a girl I went to high school with,” she says. “We’ve become good friends.”
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