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...leaving home, so he trudged 40 blocks a day each way to New York's City College. Ever mindful of the phrenologist's prophecy, his mother steered him toward the business world, and after his graduation in 1891 he found himself in Wall Street as a $5-a-week runner for a brokerage house. Four years later he was a junior partner at the age of 25, but he had speculated so wildly that he had made no money of his own in the market and had lost $8,000 of his father's money. From these...
...manner of speaking. From Las Vegas came a $200-a-week nightclub offer; a Hollywood club wanted Mary Leona, and so did Movie Producer "Jungle Sam'' Katzman. Television's Dave Garroway and The $64,000 Question put in their bids. But cagey Ed Sullivan, who likes to be fastest with the most, did it again. Mary Leona Gage Ennis signed up for the Sullivan program...
...roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when the boy quit junior high school to take a job as a glassmaker's apprentice, then bought a beat-up '46 Dodge. Marty's father would not work-Mrs. Daniels supported the family as a $46-a-week bookbinding machine operator. But Marty's father liked to drive Marty's jalopy, and if he went out at night and found it short of gas, he would wake the youngster and beat him for not keeping a full tank...
...pardonably proud of the Dickensian way he had come; he had read David Copper field 101 times. The son of Scotch-Irish immigrants, Weir quit school at 15 to support his widowed mother, worked as a $3-a-week office boy for a Pittsburgh wire company, later said he did "not consider it a handicap for a boy in his teens to have to go to work. Being forced to earn one's living strengthens character, equips for bigger battles." By 1905 Weir was manager of a U.S. Steel Corp. plant; at 30 he bought a wheezing West Virginia...
Felix Frankfurter, 74, appointed by President Roosevelt in 1939. Vienna-born, came to the U.S. at twelve, worked his way from $4-a-week delivery boy's job into top of the law class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little...