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Thomas W. Lamont became the youngest partner at J.P. Morgan in 1911, and was one of President Wilson’s negotiators in the Treaty of Versailles. Two-time candidate for Senate Corliss Lamont ’24, Ned’s great-uncle, was director of the ACLU for 22 years and fought censure by Senator Joseph McCarthy and mail censorship by the Central Intelligence Agency in court...
...Watson nods vigorously, and he and Ruby begin chatting. The eldest of seven boys, Watson says his father lived to 97 and his mother's still kicking at 94: "So I've got good genes." Ruby, the youngest of seven, counters that she had a brother who lived to 101 and "only one of us died under 90," though she's the only one left. "You're lucky," she tells Watson. "You'll have your brothers your whole life. I miss my [siblings]. There are so many things I want to talk to them about...
Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence. I would go to my attic; I'd record Martin Short Sings Songs of Loves Ago. I was 14. My mother, who was the concert master of the [Hamilton, Ont.] symphony, would say, "beautifully sung, a little flat here ..." Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized...
...always respected the family. Even though he is the fifth of seven children and the third and youngest male (Ramón, 81 and an agricultural adviser, is older than Fidel), Raúl has always been the clan's peacekeeper. When Fidel in the 1960s expropriated Cuba's ranches, including his family compound in Birán, where his mother Lina Ruz still lived, she met the revolutionaries at the door with a Winchester rifle, which she knew how to use. It was Raúl who convinced her of the merits of the reform. Lina continued to live on the compound after the state...
...Number of sit-ups the oldest recruits must be able to do, compared with the 47 required of the youngest recruits...