Word: forster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bent. The cold fiscal facts of club life are laid out in a financial study of 50 city clubs published this month by the New York accounting firm of Harris, Kerr, Forster & Co. Its gist: city-club expenses are steadily increasing while income is decreasing. In 1961-62 the total revenues of the 50 clubs were $52.1 million-down $170,000 from the preceding year-while operating costs were up $259,000 over a year ago. Compared with 1952-53, city-club revenues are 26% higher, but operating costs have risen...
Veteran Author Frank Swinnerton is 78, about the same age as the leading character in this new novel, which is his 35th and one of his finest. A friend of such giants as Bernard Shaw. E. M. Forster and John Galsworthy. Swinnerton's talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved...
...Convenient to Churches." Epstein and Forster report, among other things, on a survey of clubs made by the A.D.L. in 1961. Out of 1,152 clubs in 46 states, plus the District of Columbia (total membership: 700,000), 555 clubs barred Jews completely, and 136 limited Jewish membership to small numbers. Of the country clubs, 72% practiced discrimination, compared with only 60% of the city clubs. And discrimination, of course, produces counter-discrimination; in the sample, there were 90 "Jewish clubs," 85 of which excluded Christians...
Epstein and Forster concede that the right of a club to discriminate in its membership is as fundamental as the right of the individual to pick and choose the people he invites to lunch. But they note that when discrimination is applied to a group, independently of the personal merits or demerits of individuals, a club may be the center of an infection that spreads through society as a whole...
...Must Play Saxophone." Authors Epstein and Forster find the greatest progress against anti-Semitism during the last 25 years has been in the area of industry, although many job orders to employment agencies still carry codes, such as "All American," "G" (for white gentile), or "Nordic." Sometimes the codes are farther out; one Manhattan agency uses the incomprehensible phrase "Recommended by Redbook" to indicate that no Negroes are wanted and "Must play saxophone" to exclude Jews. But such discrimination has declined sharply since the late...