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This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Allison Southwick, and I'm joined, as always, by Robert

Brokamp, personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Happy Almost Thanksgiving, Allison.

Happy almost Thanksgiving.

In today's episode, we're going to load your plate with some delicious helpings of

portfolio allocation in a tortured metaphor.

We'll also talk about the remarkable antics of activist investor Evelyn Davis.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

So, Alison, what's up?

Well, kind of some sad news. The world recently lost what Jenna McGregor at the Washington Post calls a theatrical but persistent thorn in the side of corporate executives, by which I mean

Evelyn Nesbitt. She was a colorful character and indefatigable shareholder activist prior to her

passing on November 4. So let's take a look back on her life, shall we? Let's do it. Are you

familiar with her before all the... I've never heard the name before. Oh, really? Yes. So I'm in

for a treat, I think. Here we go. Evelyn Yvonne Dieung, I assume, was born in 1929 in Amsterdam.

She was the daughter of a neurologist father and a psychologist mother.

She grew up, as she put it, on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean, but the very right side of the tracks.

So, yeah, they were wealthy.

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