William R. Berkley got the entrepreneurial bug as a young man and founded insurance firm W.R. Berkley Corp. nearly half a century ago with just $2,500 while he was an MBA student at Harvard.
After spending several years speaking up and, in a sense, out, about his personal journey--the fortysomething was recently honored at the GMCLA Voice Awards for his courage of living as an openly gay man and founding the Lakshya Trust, which offers education and AIDS awareness--the prince is about to head into new territory.
Mr. Weeks bought $1,500 in land, and a few other other free black men did so as well and founded Weeksville.
Our other editor-in-chief, Dohoon Kim, has been a reporter and editor for Cine21 and a freelance writer for publications including Vogue, GQ, Esquire and Harper's Bazaar and founded the men's style and culture magazine GEEK.
Manned largely by PUK defectors and founded only in 2009, it has benefited from widespread anger at the older parties' alleged corruption, nepotism and repressiveness.
But there is a history behind the town's name: Peter Marks, the man who built the inn and founded the village back in 1797, was known for his insistence that customers pay in cash up front.
Eliot's grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, moved to Missouri as a young man and eventually founded Washington University, in St . Louis
In 1914, wily Mabel won her man, and Williams founded Maybelline, a company that has since nurtured our obsession with lashes.
The Circus, after all, is precisely that: an outmoded sideshow of clowns, strong-men and acrobats, founded on dodgy principles and banging the drum for a war that may not be a real war anyway.
