Word: annenbergs
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...tailgating at Brown all day.” By 9:30, the group reaches Pennypacker and flies upstairs to meet the rest of their friends. Inside the room, a wooden coffee table (found outside Pinocchio’s) holds several half-empty bottles of high-end liquor and assorted Annenberg dishware. Evans reveals that he shipped 20 liters of vodka over from England, accruing $500 in fines in the process. “My mom called me up,” he says with a rueful smile and gesturing with an open liquor bottle, “and said...
John Adams, Class of 1755, never did get to take his meals in luxurious Annenberg Hall. And now, by the appearance of the protruding middle finger on his right hand, he seems to be scorning all the first-years who do. A statue of Adams has adorned the wall near the exit of the current first-year dining hall since 1935 and has been fodder for pranksters—who break off his plaster extremities—ever since...
...Annenberg enjoyed an immensely successful business career and public life. He inherited The Philadelphia Inquirer and two racing publications from his father, Moses L. Annenberg, and proceeded to build on his holdings. His Triangle Publications became a media power and included such publications as Seventeen Magazine and TV Guide...
...Annenberg also enjoyed close ties to U.S. presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower onward. In 1969, Richard Nixon named Annenberg ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ronald and Nancy Reagan used to frequent his California estate. In 1986, Annenberg was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor...
...Annenberg was also an art aficionado who in 1991 pledged his extensive collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces to the New York Metropolitan Museum...