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...Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally answers. Christopher Cazenove lends his Arrow-shirt ad good looks as Charlie Tyrrell, alternately Louisa's benefactor, lover and friend...
With computers on tap and electronic eyes in the sky, modern man has thus come far in dealing with the weather, alternately his nemesis and benefactor. Yet man's predicament today is not too far removed from that of his remote ancestors...
...town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price to $100. So he and his wife Esther anted up what they thought it was worth-$500-and donated it to the public library, which accepted, says Director Laurence Solomon, "as an act of patriotism...
Carter's stand does not upset me one bit. It's time for Congress to cease playing benefactor to the energy interests. Hasn't anyone noted that the greatest inflationary spirals originate with industries whose products have few, if any, realistic alternatives with which to compete...
This handsome hulk of a capitalist-benefactor was born in a boxcar, son of an Italian immigrant mother and a French-Italian father en route to a railroad job in California. Mama and Papa Lavette perish in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Daniel is left with his father's small boat and a shockproof will to rise in the world. He is a tough, practical, democratic cuss who cares little for racial, religious or class barriers. To keep track of his profitable fishing venture, he hires a Chinese bookkeeper and later takes a Jewish business partner. An unselfconscious...