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...Succeed.” “We had our own vision, and we weren’t constrained by previous models. None of us knew what it was supposed to look like. We used our imagination,” Li says. In the musical, Li plays J. Pierpont Finch, whose humorous climb up the corporate ladder provides the story’s momentum. “It’s a show that’s full of energy. It’s funny and definitely something worth seeing,” says fellow castmate Matthew T. McClure...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
...surprise. He launched an antitrust suit that demanded the breakup of Northern Securities, a holding company organized to consolidate three railroads in the Pacific Northwest. By targeting that company, Roosevelt had also chosen to move against the man who epitomized the empire of money, New York financier J. Pierpont Morgan...
...Take the first airplane. On Dec. 8, 1903, Samuel Pierpont Langley, a leading government-funded scientist, launched with much fanfare his flying machine on the Potomac. It plummeted into the river. Nine days later, Orville and Wilbur Wright got the first plane off the ground. Why did these bicycle mechanics succeed when a famous scientist failed? Because Langley hired other people to execute his concept. Studying the Wrights' diaries, you see that insight and execution are inextricably woven together. Over years, as they solved problems like wing shape and wing warping, each adjustment involved a small spark of insight that...
After all, you did know that Pierpont, Buckingham, and Saltonstall—all legendary founders of Yale—were actually Harvard graduates before they went to New Haven, right...