Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer following his first year at Cambridge. Stauder went to Ethiopia where eventually he found his specialty-the Majangir tribe. That summer. Wunderley Rich '62 also went to Ethiopia, but for a different reason: to marry Stauder...
Andreas recalls that "Spiro's grandfather was rich by Gargaliani standards." He was a notary public, which carried legal duties and status in 19th century Greece. "But during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13," recalls Andreas, "there was a financial crisis." Without a trace of self-pity, Andreas explains that "though the family was financially broken, our pride and honor kept us from making crooked deals. Therefore we are poor...
...universal religion; it has a people with character and a lively sense of politics. But it does not quite make the first rank of cities today, if only because Milan-cold but confident-controls too much of Italy's wealth and industrial power. The U.S., which is rich in both money and people, ought to be able to support two great cities, perhaps one on either coast, but it does not. A half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling...
Delicious Deception. Journalists had a field day. How delicious is the deception of the rich! What a blow for aesthetic egalitarianism! And what a cast of characters! Front men for the operation were a pair of homosexuals named Fernand Legros and Réal Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool...
Born into a rich and landed Hungarian family, De Hory cruised Europe's capitals as a playboy artist during the '20s and '30s. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris and brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting...