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The crowd was fired up, delivering cheers for songwriter Natalie Merchant’s rendition of “Put a Woman in Charge” and boos for billionaire tax cuts in equal measure.

“Carson the Magnificent” is the offering of an acolyte who saw in Carson, as many did, a man who “launched the dreams of generations, as no golden Hollywood dream merchant might have fathomed, even in metaphor. Never a movie star, he shone maybe bigger anyhow.”

Like every merchant in Lake George, Massry works like a dog from Memorial Day to Labor Day, making his entire nut for the year in that three-month stretch.

But as with any good tale from the past, the son of cotton merchant - who is a member of India's supremely wealthy Tata clan - has quite a story.

Saklatvala was the son of Dorabji, a cotton merchant, and Jerbai, the youngest daughter of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, who founded the Tata Group.