Childhood: born New York City; weekend visits to family estate Lamont Hall, Palisades, New Jersey, late 1920s to 1940; estate grounds layout; Sunday luncheons: literary guests, family political discussions; Great Depression; estate staff; summers North Haven, Maine; undergraduate education, Harvard; graduate studies University of Geneva and Harvard Business School; Lamont Estate donation to Colu mbia University: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO] founding, LDEO visits, Doherty endowment; chairman Children’s Aid Society, New York.