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Grocer-Senator. Born 61 years ago in Providence, R. I., Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller has known great wealth and its power all her life. Her father, the late Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, onetime grocer, was probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically...
...Born in St. James Parish, La. in 1838, Henry Hobson Richardson went to Harvard when his stuttering kept him from a West Point appointment. He was the second famed U. S. architect to study his profession in Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after...
...comfortable but not wealthy Teetors, to whom Ralph was born 45 years ago in small Hagerstown, Ind., soon saw that the boy's blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...
Both Elie and Leon, though born in good society, were terrified of callers, would plunge into the toolshed and hide there if anybody came. Neither of them could solve a division problem that had decimals in it. What really kept them going was not the family lawyer's meagre disbursements but Elie's rich brother, a successful banker. When the bachelors' crazy household finally broke up from lack of funds, Elie was settled in a boarding house and Leon was sent to live in the keeper's lodge on his rich uncle's estate. Leon...
...Author, born in Paris (1896), like his eccentric bachelors is a member of the ancient French nobility. His family's rank dates from the 15th Century. One of his forbears was cupbearer to Louis XIV; an other lost his head in the French Revolution. Henry de Montherlant served in both the U. S. and French Armies during the War, headed the Propaganda Service of the Comite France-Amerique after the Armistice...