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...ties to the Rockefellers), his family name was Lapowski before his Polish-born grandfather took his mother's maiden name, Dillon. That name would ultimately be printed on millions of U.S. dollar bills. Having acquired a taste for art from his years in France, he amassed a collection of Impressionist paintings, much of which he later donated to New York City's Metropolitan Museum...
When rheumatoid arthritis was given its name in the 19th century, those who suffered from it--including Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir--had little to look forward to beyond life in a wheelchair. Even in the 1950s, says Cohen, there were still few treatments available. It was treated with aspirin and cortisone, a powerful anti-inflammatory with severe side effects (at lower doses it is still used). Injections of gold salts also provided some relief, although no one really knew...
...director and a film journalist, and I had made one low-budget film, Targets--a propitious beginning to my career. In my personal life, I had been married since the age of 22 to Polly Platt, and we had two small daughters. My father, a painter of the post-Impressionist school whom I greatly admired, was an undemonstrative man who said very little. I didn't realize, at that young age, how much I hungered for his approval or how little I understood myself...
...Turkish politician Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not look like a man so dangerous as to have been accused of "inciting religious hatred." His comfortably furnished offices in Ankara look more like a banker's suite than a fundamentalist's den. Impressionist prints adorn the walls, along with a portrait of Turkey's fiercely secular founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. There isn't a prayer bead in sight. "I am a Muslim," the beardless Erdogan, 48, dressed in a pressed blue suit and red tie, said in a recent interview with Time. "But I believe in a secularist state...
...worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, endowments for communications schools at two universities and $1 million to Israel after...