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...where his sleuths have taken over the turf once occupied by Nicolas Freeling's late, lamented Inspector Van der Valk. Van de Wetering's latest Dutch treat, starring the familiar trio of Detectives Grijpstra and de Gier and their commissaris, is cerebral, comradely and sensual, within the generous Hollander dollops that make KLM a perennially popular airline...
...Some people say we're a little too generous," Anne J. McDonough, assistant director of admissions at the Business School, said yesterday. "But when we consider total costs to live here, we have to look at a lot of quirky things, like travel for jobs, insurance on cars, relocation expenses on graduation, even things like if your wife has to have an incredible amount of teethwork done," she added...
High-income freelancers are as scarce as generous magazines. The median annual earnings of the 500 established writers of the American Society of Journalists and Authors was a modest $10,000 when they were last polled two years ago. Loretta Schwartz's articles for Philadelphia have won her a wailful of journalism awards-and an annual income of less than $7,500. Says Catherine Breslin, a now successful New York City writer who made $800 in 1975: "A freelancer lives at the end of a sawed-off limb...
...Guggenheims, or the "Googs," as they were condescendingly labeled by New York's older, more staid Jewish families, exploited people as ruthlessly as they did minerals. Yet they could also be uncommonly generous, and before they exhausted their funds and energies, they set new standards for imaginative philanthropy. A list of their legacies includes the Guggenheim fellowships, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, and foundations that helped finance Robert Goddard's pioneering rocket research and the Leakey family's exploration into the origins...
Fitzgerald suffered the greatest pain-and possessed the most generous memory. His letter requesting that his name be removed from The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a masterpiece of wounded pride, exhibiting a grace under pressures more trying than Papa's wars or big-game hunts...