Word: philippics
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James Bridges, Michael Richie '68, Leonard Nimoy, John Hughes, Oliver Stone, and Philipp Kauffman are some of the directors who may come to Harvard later this year, Goldstine said...
...Social Register (which they have), but you can't take the Social Register out of the girl. The formal charity affair in Manhattan last week was ever so just so--she in her pearls, taffeta debutante dress and full-length white kid gloves, and her brother Philipp Molzer in white tie and tails. After all, the honored lady of the evening was Sydney Biddle Barrows, 33, the New Jersey socialite whose family lines reach back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Barrows primly described the evening as "a lovely affair." Never mind that the "Mayflower Madam," as she was dubbed...
Just as the negotiations were about to begin, Philipp Jenninger, the head of the West German delegation, asked East Berlin's envoy to Bonn, Ewald Moldt, to step into his office for a private chat. Jenninger asked the East German if rumors that Honecker might not be coming to West Germany on Sept. 26 were true. Replied Moldt awkwardly: "The timing of the visit is no longer realistic." Thus came the earliest official word that the first visit by an East German Communist Party leader to West Germany had been postponed−perhaps indefinitely...
...Jews in Belgium. His father David worked in a Manhattan burlap-bag factory to put Rich through the private Rhodes School, where he earned a B-minus average and presided over the French club. An indifferent student at New York University, Rich quit to pursue commodities trading for the Philipp Bros. firm...
Rich started his career with Manhattan-based Philipp Brothers, then a quiet company (now Philbro-Salomon) of metals traders. He became something of a protégé of Ludwig Jesselson, the company's head. After assignments in Bolivia and Spain, he returned to New York and built the company's lucrative oil-trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established...