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Their mother, who was Henry Fonda's second wife (he has had four), took her own life during a mental illness in 1950. The children were processed through a series of New York and New England schools. Jane went to Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. ("It was ghastly-all girls, and that's unhealthy"), then on to Vassar. A sophisticated delinquent, she was one Vassar girl who never bought a bicycle, preferring to steal them instead. Unprepared for an exam, she filled her blue book with drawings and handed it in. The college refused to flunk...
...Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back on it, it was rather as if Homer had turned his back on the siege of Troy...
...STRATEGIC STOCKPILE. This embraces 98 separate "strategic" materials, including many that have to be imported, going all the way down to ten troy ounces of precious ruthenium metal. Current value: $5.8 billion...
...TROY ORGAN Athens, Ohio
Back at the ranch in Texas, the Murchisons were tight-lipped-but keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial world buzzed with talk that the Murchisons expected Kirby to launch a new proxy war for control of Alleghany and that the brothers planned to use the Gulf Life proceeds to pay off the debts they had incurred in the first Alleghany battle so that they could negotiate new loans...