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...Neal, whose husband owns the fifth bayside house on Bay Lane, says that she is "delighted to have the Nixons as neighbors. We know them only slightly, and we don't bother them." Key Biscayners are used to notables. Among residents are Sportscaster Red Barber, Aircraft Pioneer Grover Loening, N.Y. Yankee Official Larry MacPhail, Samuel C. Johnson, president of Johnson's Wax, Jack Paar and International Telephone and Telegraph President Harold S. Geneen. No longer on the scene is Candy Mossier, acquitted in 1966 of the murder of her wealthy husband Jacques. For the most part, residents seem...
Investment bankers can always use men who know their way around Washington. Lazard's newcomers have additional qualifications. Smith, 69, was a commercial aviation pioneer and chairman of American Airlines until his Cabinet appointment last March. He will be particularly valuable to Lazard in working with U.S. airlines. They will require huge amounts of capital to finance their forthcoming jumbo jets and supersonic transports and will spend about $9 billion on new equipment in the next two years alone. Deming, 56, who oversaw international monetary affairs at the Treasury, will probably help on foreign loans and the other international...
...America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became a willing, over-brutal tool of mine owners and steel bosses in the terrorism that marked the early attempts to pioneer workers' rights...
...raised in Chicago, studied English at Yale, but switched to art at the Art Institute of Chicago and came to New York in 1956 to pioneer artistic happenings. He staked out new frontiers for pop art with his plaster foodstuffs, which he sold at his 1961 Lower East Side Store. (The businessman who bought his plaster pies for $900 then values them at $12,000 today...
Much of Lightfoot's wandering, musically speaking, is done amid the vast geography and pioneer history of his native country. "I believe there are times when you should return to the soil, at least in your own mind, and when you should live in the past," he says. Canadian Railroad Trilogy evokes a time