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Darst is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Darst, CFA, an American financier, educator and author * Jeanne Darst, American author * Joseph Darst (1889–1953), the thirty-seventh Mayor of St. Louis * Margaret Darst Corbett (1889–1962), American vision educator who used the discredited Bates method * Seth Darst, American biochemist, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences {{surname ...
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David Darst
David Martin Darst, CFA, is an American financier, educator, author, and triathlete. For 17 years, he was a Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where he served as Vice Chairman of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee. He was the founding President of the Morgan Stanley Investment Group, and the founding Chairman of the Morgan Stanley Asset Allocation Committee. Since 2014, he has served as an independent Senior Advisor to and a member of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee. Early life Darst was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third of five sons born to Guy Bewley Darst and Susan Mary McGinnis Darst. Darst attended Father Ryan High School in Nashville, TN and earned a high school diploma from Phillips Exeter Academy, a BA degree in Economics from Yale University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Lecturing and professional associations Darst has lectured at Whar ...
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Jeanne Darst
Jeanne Darst is an American author. She is a regular contributor to ''This American Life'' and has written for ''The New York Times'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', and ''Vogue''. Her memoir, ''Fiction Ruined My Family'', was published in October 2011 by Riverhead Books. Early life The youngest of four girls, Darst was born in St. Louis, Missouri and moved to Stony Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York when she was 7 so her father, a newspaperman and writer for '' Harper's Magazine'', ''The Nation'', and ''The New York Times'', could write his first novel. The family planned to return to Missouri after one year. The family did not move back to St. Louis, however, they moved to Bronxville, where Darst attended Bronxville High School. She received her B.A. at SUNY Purchase where she began to write and perform her plays. On her father's side was a family of writers. Her grandmother, Katharine Darst, was a writer for the ''St. Louis Globe Democrat'', with a daily column called "Her ...
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Joseph Darst
Joseph M. Darst (March 18, 1889 in St. Louis, Missouri – June 8, 1953 in St. Louis) was the 37th Mayor of St. Louis, serving from 1949 to 1953. Darst attended St. Louis University High School, Christian Brothers College, and Saint Louis University. His business career was in real estate, but he was always interested in politics and worked on several campaigns. In 1933, he worked on behalf of Bernard F. Dickmann in his successful race for Mayor. Mayor Dickmann appointed Darst as Director of Public Welfare. During his 8 years in this position, Darst oversaw the construction of three public hospitals in St. Louis. Darst returned to his real estate practice in 1941. He made an unsuccessful bid for President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen in 1943, losing to Aloys P. Kaufmann. Darst served as director of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) during 1947-1948. Darst was elected mayor of St. Louis in April 1949. Darst was a proponent of urban renewal through slum cleara ...
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Margaret Darst Corbett
Margaret Darst Corbett (January 17, 1889 – December 5, 1962)''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume G''
New York: James T. White & Company, 1946. p. 103
was an American who promoted the discredited Bates method in an attempt to improve eyesight. She became famous after her prosecution and acquittal on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Ophthalmologists dismissed Corbett's ideas as .


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Corbett was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1889, to Edward Washington Darst and his wife Minnie Ann. ...
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