Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 15, 1995                   TAG: 9503150061
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Retired investment banker John L. Loeb and his wife, Frances, have pledged $70.5 million to Harvard University in one of the biggest donations in the history of American higher education.

Loeb, 92, graduated from Harvard in 1924. He was a senior partner at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. from 1955 to 1977.

- Associated Press

Serial killer gets stay of execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Henry Lee Lucas, the one-eyed drifter who once claimed to have killed hundreds of people, got a reprieve Tuesday less than 10 hours before he was to be executed for the 1979 murder of a hitchhiker.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted the stay Tuesday for the 58-year-old Lucas, who had been awaiting lethal injection just after midnight.

Lucas has been convicted of 12 other murders in Texas and Florida.

- Associated Press