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...last 10 years of her life, Onassis kept company with a married financier and diamond merchant, Maurice Tempelsman, who reportedly multiplied his companion's wealth. (One source says that in 1991 her holdings included $1.5 million in cash, property -- including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8 million, and $15 million to $20 million in stock.) An acquaintance of Jack Kennedy's, the Belgian-born Tempelsman, 64, eventually moved into her Fifth Avenue flat and shared her life at her $2 million summer spread in Martha's Vineyard...
...child was three. Ralph's mother worked as a domestic and recruited blacks for the Socialist Party. There was no shortage of role models for Ralph; he attended a grammar school named for Frederick Douglass and won a scholarship to Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. While in the Merchant Marines during World War II, he published several short stories. One day, just after the war, he found himself typing, "I am an invisible man." He spent seven years developing that sentence into the work that brought him instant fame...
...origami and very sensitive letters which said I have sensitive eyes and a kind face," he says. "Little did they know I wanted their money, not their love." To Grant's dismay, Maurice pegged him for dramas, and he wound up in a variety of serious Eurofilms including Merchant-Ivory's Remains of the Day. "If they would only give me something lighter," he recalls saying to himself, "I'd be better." Finally, Grant's amusing performance in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon brought him to the attention of Four Weddings director Mike Newell and led to his screen break...
This past weekend, the co-ed team finished fifth in the seventeen school Admiral's Cup held at the Merchant marine Academy in New York. Tufts, St. Mary's, Old Dominion and the Coast Guard academy rounded out the top five...
Though he claims to chafe when his competitors make cracks about his "rug merchant" bargaining methods and his "Mediterranean" temperament, Hayek nonetheless displays what he describes as "an exaggerated amount of self- confidence. I want to look in my mirror every morning and say, 'You're great.' " His strength as a businessman, Hayek says, is that he has retained "the fantasy of a six-year-old child. If you can keep and use the curiosity of a child, you can only improve everything around you." He describes his talent as being able to spot new ways of selling "emotional" products...