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...occasion so auspicious perforce the dusty bones of the Bard of Avon must needs be rattled to sing the praises of the Crimson Clan. So with pro-foundest apologies and a low waist bow, let the loud Alarums sound...
Share the Land. Despite inheritance taxes, 1,800 Argentine families still own an area greater than England, Belgium and The Netherlands together. One clan, the Unzués, holds 1,000,000 acres in the single, fertile province of Buenos Aires...
First Dick Mellon consolidated the Mellon Indemnity Corp. and General Reinsurance Corp. of New York to centralize the Mellon insurance interests. Then he set up T. Mellon & Sons, top policy group for all the Mellon clan. Actually it was a third generation team to coordinate and plan family financial strategy, like the first generation team of T. Mellon & Sons (Judge Thomas Mellon and Sons Thomas and James) which founded the Mellon dynasty...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...
Scotch & splash, haggis and heather are all close to the heart of canny Archibald Clark Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...