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California housing market, which he helped to finance, and his success was largely based on his showmanship. He "dazzled customers with free gifts, book fairs, art auctions, coffee and cake."
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Lytton gave $ 200,000 to the
Kennedy 1960 presidential election campaign, and before his resignation from Lytton Financial he gave $ 30,000 to $ 40,000 a year to various Democratic election campaigns.
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fundraiser, writer, public relations executive and philanthropist. He was a founder of Lytton
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417:The New York Times
235:John Howard Lawson
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665:Categories
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437:Obituary;
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295:Palo Alto
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