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...list of their institutions evokes the American dream. Harvard, Yale Law and Michigan are there, and the senior service academies. But a fellow from Southwest Texas State Teachers can grow up to be President (and boast of the Ivy Leaguers working for him). So can a young man from Whittier, or from, perfect name, Eureka. Truman held no degree but had studied law at night school in Kansas City...
Krikor D. Hakimian Whittier, Calif...
Arye Dagani Whittier, Calif...
...Right People) they are The Grandes Dames, women who ruled society from the 1880s to the eve of World War II. This bemused, anecdotal history follows the parabolas of such great and sometimes terrifying socialites as Bostonian Isabella Gardner. The recipient of letters from Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because, when someone displeased her, she could order, 'Cut off his head.' " In Cincinnati, a society reporter named Marion Devereux had incalculable influence over everything...
...Whittier, Calif...