IT IS, manifestly, a legend that will endure, beginning, as it does, with a family uprooting itself from Old World poverty and migrating to the world's superpower: territory wherein the enterprising can flourish, as innumerable immigrants do, many of them artfully re-crafting their surnames in deference to their adopted nation.
The next generation yields a man of stature, known in public both for his assured calculation of risk and for his affable and forthright manner. His intimates revere his instinct...
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