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...beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with men and proclaimed herself a candidate for the presidency...
Look Sharp. "There's no second-generation money here." says 38-year-old Anchorage Millionaire (real estate) Wally Hickel. who went to Alaska from Claflin, Kans. in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. "This is the crib. We're it. We're trying to make a Fifth Avenue out of the tundra, to accomplish in less than 50 years what the U.S. did in 100. Where else could you get that kind of mission, in a land that cozies you with beauty on one hand and swats you hard-if you're not looking sharp-with...
...executive committee includes: William A. M. Burden '27; Charles C. Cabot '22; Thomas D. Cabot '19; William H. Claflin '15; Lammot duPont Copeland '27; John Cowles '21; Donald K. David, former dean of the Business School; Fredrick M. Eaton '27; Marshall Field Jr. '38; G. Peabody Gardner '10; Courtlandt S. Gross '27; R. Keith Lane '22; Roy E. Larsen '21; Neil H. McElroy '25; James J. Milton '13; Arthur W. Page '05; Paul C. Reardon '32; Geoffrey S. Smith '22; Edgar B. Stern '07; Robert G. Stone '20; Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32; Philip H. THeopold '25; John E. Toulmin...
Lament for April 15 and Other Modern American Madrigals (Randolph Singers; Composers Recordings, Inc.). Thirteen songs for five a cappella voices, composed by such U.S. composers as Ulysses Kay, Kurt List, Charles Mills, some funny, some atmospheric. The title song is Avery Claflin's setting to music of portions of the federal income-tax instructions (TIME...
This charming ditty was written by a man. who might well be emotionally aroused by tax matters-a retired financier. He is Brooklyn's Avery Claflin, 57, president until last year of Manhattan's French American Banking Corp. A onetime pupil of French Composer Erik Satie, and himself the composer of three operas, Claflin had settled back into a comfortable life of composition last January when he was interrupted by the impending tax-filing date. He spent six weeks making out the forms for his large family. "When you are working with words over and over again," says...