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...20th century, says Stern, "is one of the richest periods in musical creativity." A discriminating advocate of contemporary violin music who has given premieres of concertos by William Schuman, George Rochberg and Krzysztof Penderecki, Stern has had a privileged view of modern musical history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last...
When a button marked "HARV" flashes on the telephone switchboard in almost 50 investment banking firms on Wall Street, stock traders know that the nation's richest university wants to do some business. At Harvard Management Company (HMC) in Boston's financial district, one of the four traders simply places a call on one of the 90 direct lines to the money moguls to ask, "What's your market in stock X, Y, or Z?" Through such second-long transactions, Harvard traders shuffle around an average of $4 million each day. In the last three months, under HMC's care...
...from his oilman father George F. Getty. By buying leases cheap, J. Paul was able to parlay his luck into a million dollars by the time he was 23. With dung-beetle persistence he then set out to accumulate the billion dollars that earned him FORTUNE magazine's title, Richest Man in America. That was in 1957, more than five years after Getty had abandoned the U.S. for a nomadic life in European hotels. He said he wanted to be halfway between the oil fields of California and the Middle East. Perhaps. But as his biographers make clear, the Continent...
...right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection and finally shielded his remains. Getty was buried near the museum, a stagy imitation of the Emperor Hadrian's Villa dei Papyri, though...
...throng packed a soccer stadium in Alexandra, a squalid Black township wedged among the richest white suburbs of Johannesburg. In the crowd were Black activist Winnie Manela and diplomats from seven Western nations, including the United States...