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Honorary Harvard degrees go to Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe ("his good fortune was ours too"), shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ("he trampled where others feared to tread"), and to humorist Cleveland Amory ("his pen was deft, his wit was fast").
Friendly for Years. Lazard Freres owes its capital coup to the network of personal contacts carefully constructed by its French-born senior partner, Andre Meyer, 70. A close friend of World Bank President Robert McNamara and of outgoing Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler,* Meyer has been an adviser to Jacqueline Onassis...
Sir: Aristotle Onassis. If he were American, his success story would be considered a typical American boy's dream come true. We admire him most of all for getting the Bride of the Year.
Lardner said he would rather forget Come the Revolution, a political satire. "If my play were produced, besides getting bad reviews it would probably provoke a lawsuit from Mrs. Onassis," he said.
After her well-guarded honeymoon on the isle of Skorpios, Jacqueline Onassis was looking forward to a quiet trip home to Manhattan and her children, with a stop along the way to see her sister, Lee Radziwill, in England. But when a lady has been queen of the headlines for...