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After studying in Switzerland and Germany, the cosmopolitan young Morgan arrived on Wall Street in 1857, serving as agent for his father Junius Spencer Morgan, who had taken over a London merchant bank. Though Pierpont participated in refinancing the Civil War debt in the 1870s, he acquired true imperial status in underwriting America's railroads...
...master manipulator, and it was generally acknowledged that of all the great actors on the lot--the Barrymores, Spencer Tracy, Lon Chaney, Garbo--L.B. was No. 1. When Robert Taylor tried to hit him up for a raise, L.B. advised the young man to work hard, respect his elders, and in due time he'd get everything he deserved. L.B. hugged him, cried a little and walked him to the door. Asked, "Did you get your raise?" the now tearful Taylor is said to have answered, "No, but I found a father...
Immediately, Diana supporters came roaring back. THE SMEARING OF A PRINCESS, read one headline; Diana's friend Rosa Monckton, her brother Charles Spencer and the Duchess of York all made statements bemoaning that anyone would accuse the Princess of wrongdoing now that she's dead. "Has Charles no shame?" wonders another royal biographer, Anthony Holden. Charles and Camilla were driven to the unprecedented move of issuing a joint statement insisting that they had not cooperated with Junor nor asked their friends...
...group, it's harder for their personalities to shine. To be sure, Derek Jeter, the previously Mariah Carey-dating shortstop, seems kind of slick, and Paul O'Neill has a warrior self-hatred thing, banging into walls and throwing down his helmet whenever he grounds out. And Shane Spencer, a lifetime minor leaguer who was called up at the end of the season to hit a barrage of grand slams, seemed like the Natural. But this team kept even Strawberry and Wells politely restrained. They got the ridiculously self-monikered Rock Raines to go back to Tim Raines. None...
...personal heroics, there was David Wells' perfect game. There was the 12-game-winning "El Duque," born Orlando Hernandez, the young man and the sea, who paddled away from Cuba and Castro. And Shane Spencer, who descended from Krypton to hit three grand slams in September. Manager Joe Torre moved players in and out of the lineup all year, and no one ever complained about playing time. Since professional sports is almost wholly made up of prima donna billionaires (see the NBA lock-out), that is a rare achievement...