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...Milton Hershey and his wife Catherine, who never had any children of their own, founded the school in 1909, originally to serve orphaned boys. In 1918, after his wife's death, Hershey gave his entire personal fortune, about $60 million, to the school, then known as the Hershey Industrial School...
...From there, things got a little strange. In 1903 self-taught nutritionist Horace Fletcher became known as the Great Masticator for advancing the notion that one should chew food exactly 32 times before spitting it out completely. (Pleasant dinner guests, Fletcher's acolytes were not.) In 1928 dieters could choose between eating only meat and fat (sometimes in trimmings bought directly from the butcher) on the Inuit diet, or skim milk and bananas on Dr. George Harrop's aptly named bananas-and-skim-milk diet. As late as the 1960s, Dr. Herman Taller was touting the Calories Don't Count...
...Moved to New York City after college and lived there until 1990. Worked for investment bank Lazard (then known as Lazard Frères & Co.), rising to vice president of mergers and acquisitions...
...Emerged as a nationally known figure in the wake of her husband's confession. Launched a website, jennysanford.com, and applied to trademark her name in order to sell branded products such as clothing and mugs...
Classes have been frequently closed, and running battles - mostly nonviolent scrambles - have occurred on campus grounds. Even the famous July 1999 student protests, known in Iran by their initial date in the Persian calendar - the 18th of Tir - did not last this long...