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COMPILED FROM NEWSWEEK DEC 23, 1985 LOTS OF PEOPLE LOVE NEW YORK'S CEN- TRAL PARK, BUT FEW LOVE IT AS MUCH AS MILLIONAIRE GEORGE DELACORTE. OVER THE YEARS, THE 92-YEAR-OLD PHILANTHROPIST PAID FOR THE PARK'S OUTDOOR DELACORTE THEATRE, THE ANIMATED DELACORTE CLOCK AT THE PARK'S ZOO AND THE FAMOUS ALICE IN WONDERLAND STATUE NEAR THE BOAT POND. WALKING THROUGH THE PARK ONE MOR- NING LAST WEEK, DELACORTE AND HIS WIFE VALERIE, 66, WERE MUGGED BY KNIFE-WIELDING ATTACKERS WHO TOOK $200 AND MRS. DELACORTE'S $5,500 MINK COAT -- BRUISING HIS FACE AND NICKING HER HAND IN THE PRO- CESS. DELACORTE SAYS THE ATTACK WON'T ALTER HIS 60-YEAR-OLD CUS- TOM OF WALKING DAILY THROUGH THE PARK -- BUT HE *WAS* OFFENDED BY HIS ASSAILANT'S LACK OF MANNERS. "AFTER THEY TOOK MY MONEY THEY COULD HAVE SAID, 'THANKS FOR BUILDING THAT STATUE'," HE SAID. "BUT THEY DIDN'T." MANNERS. "AF