Word: duponts
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...first time in 22 years the exchange, one of the nation's most exclusive clubs, was expelling a member for "fraudulent acts which endangered a member firm's financial position." The offender: Anton E. Homsey, 53, one of two partners in the Boston firm of DuPont, Homsey & Co. His offense was pledging an estimated $503,000 in securities belonging to three customers as collateral for loans without the customers' knowledge. The exchange's last such case was in 1938, when Richard Whitney, five times president of the exchange, was expelled-and later sent to Sing Sing...
...DuPont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Farley Granger in an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Arrow smith...
Ostentation & Austerity. Of those that survive, none set a higher tone than the great plantation houses of the Virginians. Perhaps the least known is James Madison's stately Montpelier, which is now a racehorse breeding farm owned by Marion duPont Scott (former wife of Actor Randolph Scott). In Montpelier's heyday there was no more festive scene than the dinner parties for 90, presided over by vivacious Dolly Madison, "a fine, portly, buxsom dame." Virginians not only maintained standards; they set them as well, as Frontiersman Andrew Jackson's Hermitage (opposite) proves. "Old Hickory" and his devoted...
President Pusey's announcement Monday that the Program for Harvard College had passed its goal of $82.5 million does not mark the end of the Program, but rather a memorable and significant day in it. Large gifts from Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 and Lamont duPont Copeland '27, and a bequest from Walter W. Naumburg '89 have assured the College of the funds needed to carry out the Program, and that achievement is to be welcomed by undergraduates and alumni. The task, however, has just begun, for the real job is spending--spending to strengthen and build the College, to broaden...
...addition to Vanderbilt's, two other last-minute seven-figure gifts were forthcoming from wealthy alumni. The donors were Walter W. Naumburg '89, whose bequest to the Program totaled $2 million, and Lamont duPont Copeland '27, an earlier contributor, who gave an additional $1 million...