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After trading first place finishes, the Crimson picked up some hetty points when its divers led by sophomore. All American Dan Watson, swept both the one and three-meter events.
Don't blame us, we tried hard. No criteria for inclusion are offered. Why Calamity Jane and not Annie Oakley? Why Lucille Ball but not Bette Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about...
Although he writes admiringly of the vast sums expended by Vanderbilts, Goulds and Morgans on yachts, castellated mansions, cotillions, fine libraries and blooded horses, Beebe concedes that for pure genius, nobody topped "Colonel" Ned Green, the spectacularly eccentric, wooden-legged, oversexed son of Hetty Green, the miserly "Witch of Wall...
For Author Arthur Lewis, a onetime newsman who wrote a lively 1963 biography of Millionairess Hetty Green, The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, the story of the Molly Maguires was clearly a labor of love. Lewis comes from Mahanoy City in the heart of the coal fields, where the...
For all her eccentricities, Hetty was unquestionably a financial genius. Operating through two holding companies of which she was the sole stockholder, she bought up property (in Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis) so shrewdly that by her death at 80 she had increased at least 20 times over the fortune...