Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On a Platform. A two-mile-long, cigar-shaped strip in the East River, north of the U.N., between Long Island and Manhattan, Welfare Island was once a penitentiary, now is occupied by nurses' homes, hospitals for the aged and poor, and homes for wayward girls. Apart from the...
A slum kid's Harvard, New York City's tuition-free City College has produced such men as Financier Bernard Baruch and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Started 114 years ago, it sparked the founding of six more colleges to form a huge municipal system that now has...
Existential Despair. The extraordinary thing about Monticello is its ordinariness. The habitual viewer knows that it has industry, because Winston Grimsley, a fuddy financier, is the grey eminence of these modest family fortunes. It has an airport -a villain once took off and fell from a plane whose flight originated...
Gabrielle is the ancient Chimera brought to life-the head of a lioness, clawlike hands, a goatish nature. When Jacquemar first glimpses this temptress, "her beauty aroused in him an irresistible, nameless thirst which, if it was sexual, seemed to endow sexuality with a new role in the world." Coolly...
Earl Edward Toiler Smith, 57, is slated to go to Bern as Ambassador to Switzerland, although the Swiss have made it clear that they are less than pleased. Financier, sportsman, onetime member of the Republican national finance committee, Palm Beach neighbor and old friend of Jack and Jackie Kennedy. Smith...