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...Heir to comfortable if not princely means, Winthrop's one abiding passion was his treasures. His wedded life less than joyous, and estranged from his two daughters by his refusal to bless their marriages. Winthrop loved best the private contemplation of his paintings and carvings. But he also felt a strong obligation to posterity. In his reply to a request from the Smithsonian Institution that he leave his collection to the nation. Winthrop said, "I am not so much interested in the general public as I am in the Younger Generation whom I want to reach in their impressionable years...
While Harvard was making attempts to grab property in the densely populated Square area, the Dow family was slowly amassing land on Brattle Street, Richard A. Dow '33 fell heir to most of Brattle Street and with it the potential to exercise power over a substantial portion of the Square. But Dow maintains now, "I'm not really involved, nor have I been involved in Cambridge relations today." And he is right, as few community leaders mention Dow as a man with influence around the Square...
...deny-a public report that he intends to retire when his current term ends. Blocking the path of both Hays and Burton, however, is Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the House majority leader. O'Neill has no intention of letting either challenger edge him out as heir apparent to Albert...
...merely that Land finally anointed a possible successor, but also that McCune's new job did not go to General Manager Thomas Wyman, 45. A sales and administrative whiz who came to Polaroid ten years ago from the Nestle Co., Wyman had been widely regarded as the heir apparent. But just before McCune's promotion was announced, Wyman quit to accept the president's job at the Green Giant food company in Le Sueur, Minn. Wyman denied strenuously that he had had a falling out with Land, but he was clearly tired of waiting. The attraction...
...approval, continued his astonishing comeback. He became the first of Chou's twelve Vice Premiers as well as one of six Vice Chairmen of the Communist Party. The sole official to be elevated both in the ranks of the government and the party, he has emerged as the heir apparent to Chou-at least for now (see box page...