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...member of a family of major Harvard donors, whose private plane had gone missing off the coast of Nantucket the previous afternoon.A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School (HBS) who was actively involved as an alumnus at both institutions, Baker, 66, was the great-grandson of George F. Baker, a former president of the First National Bank of New York whose $5 million donation in 1924 was crucial to the construction of the HBS campus.News of Baker’s disappearance came as a shock to members of the HBS community. Baker had been a friend...
...philanthropist George F. Baker III ’61 went missing when the plane he was piloting off the coast of Nantucket disappeared from the radar yesterday afternoon, The Associated Press reported late last night. Reportedly a major donor to Harvard Business School (HBS), Baker, 66, is the great-grandson of George F. Baker, whose donations were crucial to the construction of the HBS campus...
Rubinacci's roots in the tailoring tradition go back to his great-grandfather, who sold silk from the Far East. By the 1930s, his grandson Gennaro had opened a boutique in the center of Naples called London House, so named for his preference for cashmere, tweed and Shetland wool?and, of course, bespoke tailoring. Today Mariano continues the family tradition with shops in Milan, Rome and Tokyo...
...China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795" show until mid-April: artifacts from ancient dynasties, flowing calligraphy, elaborate scrolls, magnificent dragon-decorated robes, priceless jades and ancestor paintings that represent the most important Confucian value, filial piety. In fact, the subjects of this exhibition are a father, his son and grandson - the Qing Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong - who ruled the Middle Kingdom for 133 consecutive years and expanded China even beyond its present-day borders. And the trio weren't even Chinese. They were Manchus, hunters and fishers from north of the Great Wall who successfully vanquished the crumbling Ming...
...only thing more stunning than the spectacle of a quivering, hangdog Ohio Governor pleading no contest in August to criminal charges is the fact that he is still in office. Bob Taft, the Republican great-grandson of a U.S. President and son of a Senator, could have received a two-year jail term for failing to report, as state law requires, 47 golf outings paid for by others, but a municipal-court judge let him walk after slapping him with a $4,000 fine. Taft has since ignored thunderous demands for his resignation, even from many onetime allies...