Word: onassisism
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"All that really counts these days is money," Aristotle Onassis once said. "It's the people with money who are the royalty now." By that maxim, the ambitious, expansive Greek shipping magnate was a king of kings. Until he died of bronchial pneumonia in Paris last week at age...
Unlike many of his reclusive peers in that small realm of the super-super-rich, Onassis knew how to spend as lavishly as he earned. Known around the world as "Ari" or "Daddy-O" (his Greek friends, however, called him "Telis," the diminutive of Aristotle), he was the prime mover...
Kennedy is only the first respondant from a 60-name donor list assembled this fall by the the editors--a list Saylor says includes "the McNamaras, the Richardsons, Jackie Onassis, you know, people like that."
Although there is no hardcore evidence, it appears that in the final analysis it won't be Smith at all but Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the other Kennedy friends on the Library advisory board who will decide where and when to place the...
Who was this all-American paragon, oozing the sap of maple-sugared kindness? When ABC aired the Howard Hughes story, a made-for-TV film biography of the reclusive millionaire, the protagonist was unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes...