Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 500 U. S. & Canadian cowboys have chosen rodeoing as a career-well aware that in an arena they may make more money in 60 seconds than they can make in a year on the range. Besides, they can buy fancy shirts and see the world. Last week, after nine months of jogging around-to Salinas, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Calgary and scores of lesser roundups-the cream of the professional cowpunchers gathered in the midst of Manhattan's skyscrapers for the climax of the season: the 14th annual World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden-26 days...
...career, he remarked, which has placed him at the top of all living violinists, has been worth while "only because of the satisfaction it has given me as an artist...
Advices Against Own Career...
Kreisler, who opens the Boston recital season at Symphony Hall next Wednesday evening, said that he would not advise a young man to set out on a career such as he has had. He does not think the compensations of fame are worth all the demands it imposes...
...Yale (1929) and Clare College, Cambridge, Paul Mellon read, wrote and rowed, decided on a literary career. Instead, his father got him into the Mellon National Bank. Last July he resigned as president and trustee of the National Gallery of Art at Washington (founded by Father Andrew) "because of business demands...