Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standards set during the Harriman-Hill-Gould era, 34 years represents a long time to create a railroad empire. But Ike Tigrett was never in any great hurry...
...Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...
...time after graduation, Gould earned his living by reviewing books. "Now," he says, "book reviewing is done by machines," and he considers himself a victim of technological unemployment. For many years he has devoted himself to the epic "Oral History," which he describes as a compendium, seemingly endless, of everything he has seen himself or been told first-hand in all parts of the world...
...Gould likes to be interviewed, says "I make good copy." Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker treats Gould in "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon" where he spreads the fallacious (says Gould) story that Joe used to go into cafeterias and eat up a couples of bottles of ketchup, not because he liked it but because it was free...
...Mitchell better watch his stop. When insulted by some Bowery stroller, Gould snaps erect and lashes out with a storm of invective without over repeating himself, "Madam," he has said, "It is the duty of the bohemian to make a spectacle of himself. If may informality leads you to believe that I am a rum-dumb or that I belong in Bellevue, then hold fast to that belief; hold fast, and show your ignorance...