Word: chicagoan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what? Has the Chicago Bulls' star been traded to the host New York Knickerbockers? Nice dream, if you're a New Yorker; nightmare, if a Chicagoan. Is he retiring and, like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, making his farewell appearances? Maybe he'll hang up the Air Jordans in a decade or two, but certainly not now. So what's all the fuss about? Simply that this is the first time during the 1988-89 season that the world's most exciting basketball player is visiting New York. A JORDAN FOR PRESIDENT sign even appears in the stands, a semiserious calling...
...hard to build self-esteem if you don't deal with the challenge of getting a job," says George Pillsbury of Boston, scion of the flour family. There is also a feeling of guilt for having been born with money. "That was the worst problem I had," admits Chicagoan Abra Prentice Wilkin, great- granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. "I didn't earn it." The knowledge can taint even the pleasure of making expensive purchases. The first time Wilkin spent $100 for a pair of shoes, she was so upset she never wore them. And nagging twinges persist. "I still rationalize...
Writers want to be read; most of them will also confess to dreams of striking it rich. Every so often, reality conspires to reward both desires at once. The latest beneficiary of this bolt-from-the-blue largesse is a Chicagoan named Scott Turow, 38. Since 1978 he has been a lawyer in his hometown, working for eight years in the U.S. Attorney's office and then as a partner in a private firm. He has also, like thousands of others among the gainfully employed, written in his spare time. Eventually he completed his first novel. Unlike most such manuscripts...
...Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...
...least temporarily assured, customers started to return their money. "Some were a bit sheepish that they were stampeded by a rumor," one bank executive noted. "We don't blame them, but they damn near did us in." Other depositors, however, seemed determined to stay away. Said one wealthy Chicagoan, who shifted the more than $1 million in his children's trust fund to First Chicago: "The worst four-letter word in banking is risk, and Continental took too many of them...