Some rumors are just too good to pass up.
So while killing out old e-mails in my inbox I came across this one from a few weeks back that I shared at the time with Mayor Frank Scotto, who howled with laughter.
I thought about saving it for columnist John Bogert's annual April Fool's Day column - especially as the newsroom gets a kick out of hearing City Editor Frank Suraci patiently explaining the joke to oblivious readers over the phone - but by then it will be too old.
So here's the e-mail - which the writer attributes to a Seattle friend who "knows" the Microsoft founder (although he even put that in quotation marks), - have a laugh and don't call Frank:
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Bill Gates is looking for land to build a full-blown $5 billion, 12,000
student research university on the West Coast. One of the locations that has
been mentioned for exploration is the 500+ acre Zamperini Field (Torrance
Airport) site. One of his advisers mentioned the safe community, nice weather,
ample stores and restaurants, and the proximity to potential medical-school
partners in Torrance Memorial and Little Company of Mary. The concept is more
of a residential university instead of a commuter-school. The hope is free
room-and-board for undergrads would reduce the number of commuter students,
therefore less resistance to the project because of traffic concerns. Current
Zamperini operations would shift to Hawthorne and Long Beach airports.
After leaving the CEO position at Microsoft, Bill is looking to focus on
education and go the path of Leland Stanford by founding what he hopes will one
day be the one of the world's great
universities. |
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