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Harvard officials were thrilled in 1950 when Ernest G. Stillman '08, one of their wealthiest benefactors, gave the University a $1.2 million trust fund to promote the study of forestry...
Harvard officials were thrilled in 1950 when Ernest G. Stillman '08, one of their wealthiest benefactors, gave the University a $1.2 million trust fund to promote the study of forestry...
Harvard officials were thrilled in 1950 when Ernest G. Stillman '08, one of their wealthiest benefactors, gave the University a $1.2 million trust fund to promote the study of forestry...
Chamorro has long been the best-known woman in Nicaragua, and the family whose name she bears has been one of the country's wealthiest and most powerful for generations. "I am a symbol, I know that," she says. She is also an anomaly: an influential woman in a macho society, albeit one that claims to have eradicated sexism. What probably makes her most dangerous to the regime, however, is the fact that she can -- and regularly does -- act with the courage of those who have nothing left to lose...
Louis Auchincloss, discreet attorney to the well-to-do and subtle novelist of their mores, proposes that the period between 1880 and 1910 could be called the Vanderbilt Era, after its largest and wealthiest clan. In these portraits in miniature of family members -- plus outriders like Richard Morris Hunt, who designed their grandiose homes -- Auchincloss writes with the relaxed intimacy of a frequent houseguest. (In fact, his wife Adele is a Vanderbilt descendant...