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...well-tooled pop that beats The Who in the charts. There are even other hard-rock groups, like Led Zeppelin, that lay down a kind of sugar-lined bombast that can razzle-dazzle the record buyer. The Who's cumulative sales exceed 20 million records. The members' individual wealth???Townshend, Entwistle and Daltrey are all millionaires several times over?is nothing to sulk about, even if the band is not in the highest OPEC aristocracy of rock. This is a matter of no particular moment to the group. It coasts past trends and floats over sales curves just by staying...
...long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were located within a stone's throw of early U.S. wealth???New York, Philadelphia and Boston...
...university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth???some $30.000,000?would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall be my children." He asked Dr. Jordan to help him build Leland Stanford Jr. University and be its first president...
Oddly enough a major portion of Lawyer Bennett's wealth???estimated at $10,000,000?came as an absolute windfall. He had been one of three zealous Sunday School teachers in his youth, the other two being a young woman and her brother. This three-cornered friendship was lifelong. The young woman married Lumber Tycoon E. B. Eddy. Presently he died. Mrs. Eddy and her brother, when they died, left 1.507 shares (control) of E. B. Eddy Co. to their pious friend "Dick" Bennett...
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