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...Halloween night in Washington, D.C., in the 1970s, children out for trick- or-treat stopped by the elegant N Street townhouse of Averell and Pamela Harriman. They were greeted by a maid in a white apron holding a silver tray full of dimes. How novel! The wealthy Harrimans -- Pamela was the daughter of a British baron, Averell a financier and former Governor of New York -- were handing out money instead of candy. But not a lot. The maid cautioned: "Just one dime each...
Defensively the Tigers will be even worse off. Only three starters return from last year: junior linebacker Dave Patterson, senior strong safety Mark Berkowitz and senior cornerback Jonathan Reid. Princeton also lost its defensive coordinator, Mark Harriman, who has joined Murphy's Harvard staff...
...payrolls nearly one-quarter since 1987, which helped lower costs and reduce freight charges. The resulting surge in business has boosted their profits. "These mergers are the railroads' way of saying that the enemy is not really one another," says James Higgins, who watches the industry for Brown Brothers Harriman. "The enemy is the highway and the truckers...
Books: Pamela Harriman, that ultimate Cosmopolitan girl...
Ogden sometimes seems unreasonably priggish when discussing Harriman's sexual pursuits. "Christians, Muslims, Jews, agnostics, she was an equal- opportunity playgirl and eventually sampled them all," he writes. He is lucky that she did. If Harriman had been more demure and straitlaced, Ogden never would have been able to ride the best-seller lists with this entertaining book...