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...rapidly. In the four years after Wallace had started to print original articles, Digest circulation shot from 449,666 to 2,469,527, a fantastic climb in a depression. By 1939, the Digest had outgrown all the vacant offices in Pleasantville. Wallace built a $1,500,000 red brick Georgian headquarters near Chappaqua, a few miles north of Pleasantville. But he kept the old mail address; Pleasantville sounded more like the Digest's right address...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...called to lead was neither the oldest nor the biggest in the U.S.* It was founded in 1887, with eight students and three teachers, then met in a small Spanish-Portuguese synagogue. When Louis Finkelstein took over in 1940, it had a set of handsome, six-story Georgian buildings on Manhattan's academy-studded Morningside Heights - and perhaps the most distinguished faculty of rabbinical teachers in the English language. By the standards of 1940, it was turning out a fair number of graduates: eight or ten young rabbis a year, an equal number of qualified teachers for Jewish schools...
...answers Ferris can dredge up are corroded with hate and futility. He loathes his job, is desperately weary of the daily stint on the office treadmill. He detests his pretentious "neo-Georgian" home in Oakdale, a genteel Midwestern suburb. Most of all he hates "the goddamn blood-drinking octopus" he married. Enid Ferris is one of those primly efficient young matrons who know how to place-kick an indulgent husband over the goal posts of a cash culture to make a social score. But Enid is all take and no give. Frigidly squeamish about the claims of the flesh...
...Incidentals: fabulous collections of armor, Georgian silver, paintings, sculptures, tapestries, antique furniture (all periods...