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...alumni the Fund should act to achieve a broader base of givers. Each class after '47 has but four agents for solicitation of contributions. Earlier classes have fewer. The Permanent Class Committee must labor mightily to find the four magic individuals who know most of their classmates--especially the affluent ones--and who are either Bostonians or New Yorkers. The small size of the Fund staff prevents the utilization of larger numbers of agents. The dominant belief that agents must be a part of a small happy family in constant contact with the Fund office limits the location of prospective...
...flashbacks, each man defines the life that helped make him what he is-Billings' background affluent, Eastern, Harvard; Haislip's poor, Midwestern, school of hard knocks. But it is Haislip's mistress who finally tells Billings even more than he wants to know: "You're a saver. Cautious and careful . . . Not Hank. He wants things different. He's a breaker, and you know why? He wants to break things and set them up again so he can be a careful little saver instead of you." Whether the breakers or the savers will carry...
...Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit in his own plane. It took Johnny 30 years to ride to this affluent estate, and he is still a long way from hanging up his boots. By week's end he had won ten more, for a total of 4,881. For as long as he feels like riding, horsemen will forgive him his minor transgressions-he breeds a few standardbreds and sneaks...
...Representatives (and even accredited members of the press) he is not dealing with persons, but rather with the sovereignty of the U.S. And unfortunately for the Republican Party, I think Mr. Wilson's "the-people-be-damned" attitude symbolizes for many people the feelings of all powerful and affluent members of the party...
...subduing unleashed ambition is uncertain, and while his eloquence nevers falters, his nobility wavers too much for him to be a spy in the grand manner. The spy, he observes, "must have disgust for poverty, and faith in the future of money." Though continually dedicated to becoming affluent, he sometimes seems unsure of how to do it. This ambiguity makes him dubious as a character who claims to be the greatest spy in history, and Mason's submission to human frailty occasionally leaves an incomplete and meaningless impression...