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Others chosen were Alfred Friendly, Jr. '59, of Adams House and Washington, D.C., as vice-President; Derek T. Winans '60, of Hollis Hall and South Orange, N.J., as secretary; William Dean '59, of Adams House and New York City, as Treasurer; and William Cotter '58, of Dunster House and Tarrytown, N.Y., as Activities Chairman...
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...Sometimes the new brood, like the old, wonders who is ahead in the walking. In December 1946 the Rockefeller brothers thought about donating the 3,000-acre family estate near Tarrytown, N.Y. for the site of the permanent headquarters of the U.N. Nelson got on the phone to J.D.R. Jr. The soft-voiced questions came crowding in. "Is this what the United Nations prefers? Is this the ideal location?" "No." "What is?" "New York City, of course." Then Nelson mentioned a possible $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 property beside Manhattan's East River. J.D.R. Jr. asked...
...Germany. Six years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying, he took her up for one last ride, buzzed under the George Washington Bridge in a final amateur airman's salute. To win a $100 bet, he once water-skied down the Hudson
...Tarrytown, N.Y. ¶ The late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, Speaker of the House for eight years, was TIME'S first (March 3, 1923) cover subject...