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...More than a century ago, these reservoirs of blue blood began as a mansion away from one’s mansion, the alternative to the city’s less-than-appealing selection of restaurants and too-public hotels. These were places where men could smoke the mild cigar and sip a fine brandy while playing cards and catching up on the news from Europe. “There was a whole class of people that didn’t have to work,” says Hugh Davids Scott Greenway ’71, a member of both...
...elegant Somerset Club, founded in 1851, occupies the mansion of David Sears, Class of 1807, designed in 1819 by Alexander Parris and built on the site of the farm formerly owned by John Singleton Copley. Four large oval rooms, two private dining rooms, a “morning room,” a library and an immense living room in the Directoire style make up the core of the building. Beyond this resplendent salon are the ivy strewn walls that surround the Somerset’s garden and terrace, known as “the Bricks,” where...
...then, the story has been the Union Club’s gradual slide down the slope of Boston society. It has long been described as the “Rodney Dangerfield of Clubs.” Today the club is overrun by lawyers. The Union Club occupies the original mansion of Amos Lawrence on No. 7 and 8 Park Street. The upstairs dining rooms each have a magnificent view of the Commons to the west...
...stand last week, Edwards answered yes-or-no questions with unsolicited sermons. It's like "Spartacus to the Romans," complained prosecutor Jim Letten. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola admonished, "This is not a theater." Of course it was. Edwards told of high-stakes poker games in the Governor's mansion and of "stacking up cash and throwing it away" on lavish impulses. Prosecutors say he used $733,567 in cash toward the purchase of a $1.3 million house. "The government prints $200 million in $100 bills every day. Must be a lot of other people using cash besides me," said...
...heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought for $13,000 in the 1960s. Richard likes junk food, can be blunt with subordinates, is building a lavish mansion and flew Whitney Houston to Hong Kong for his millennium party. (One trait the duo share is a penchant for being seen with beautiful women; Ka-shing is a widower, and Richard has never married.) When asked which businessman he admires most, Richard mentions not Dad but Sony's co-founder...