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...dubbed “the world’s richest man” in 1948 by Life magazine. As an illegitimate child, she spent her first seven years in a modest three-bedroom house just a few minutes away from her father’s mansion. Her mother, Ruth Ray, raised Swanee and her three siblings as the offspring of a fictitious husband with the surname “Wright.” Life as a single mother and woman of faith was difficult in 1950s Dallas, Texas...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From ‘Wright’ to Wealth: An Oil Heiress Tells Her Tale | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

However, Hunt’s fortunes improved at the expense of her father’s first wife, who died after conceiving six children with the oil baron. Two years later, Ray married H.L. Hunt, 29 years her elder, and Swanee Wright became Swanee Hunt. Her family moved into a Dallas replica of George Washington’s Virginia mansion, Mt. Vernon...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From ‘Wright’ to Wealth: An Oil Heiress Tells Her Tale | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...equally as mouth-watering. Seasonal-styled videos are available - mostly short MarthaStewart.com clips on how to carve a turkey and make stuffing, rather than a half-hour program on how to roast a bird. Other offerings include advice from Stewart as well as upstart cooking cookie Rachael Ray, along with a baker's dozen of food bloggers including the Breakaway Cook, Daily Olive, and financial madman Jim Cramer's favorite bite site, HungryGirl.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dotcom for the Dinner Table? | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...people surveyed criticized the negative tone that Healey’s campaign has taken in recent weeks. The ads under fire attack Patrick, a former Dunster House resident, for his soft stance on crime by drawing on the Democratic candidate’s involvement in the cases of Carl Ray Songer, who killed a patrolman in Florida, and Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist. Specifically, Healey, an alum of South House, now Cabot, has criticized Patrick for overturning Songer’s death sentence when the candidate was a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dem Leads in Battle of Alums | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...Playing the Victim in Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson is a target of a federal corruption investigation and not welcome in his own party. But with the backing of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, he may just win reelection

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: In Final Days, Parties Dream of Senate Upsets | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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