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...with a grandiose sweep of his cane and exclaimed: "This was nothing more than a bankrupt cow pasture 17 years ago." For ebullient Promoter George S. May, 63, the 134-acre pasture has grown spectacularly solvent and lushly green. It is now known as Tam O'Shanter, the nouveau Ritz among country clubs, whose 6,915-yd. golf course has a telephone on every...
...Tech. But there must be better places than Worcester, he decided, to find out about architecture. When he was 20, he went to New York and applied for a job with the most famous firm of architects in the U.S., McKim, Mead & White. They had put up half the nouveau riche palaces in Newport, R.I., and had just built the Morgan Library in Manhattan, while some Bellevue Hospital buildings, the Racquet and Tennis Club and several Columbia University buildings were among the projects on their drawing boards. Harrison wanted the job so much that he said he would work...
...Wilson Wyatt (see below). Stevenson furthermore announced that the campaign would be run by him and Wyatt alone. At any mention of Harry Truman's proposed whistle-stop tour on his behalf, Stevenson remained as chilly as a racquet club elder faced with the membership application of a nouveau riche garage owner...
...sixth of the families have illegally sold some of their land to pay for weddings and funerals. At the other end, about as many family heads have increased their holdings, and some have even begun lending money to the nouveau poor at interest of 60% a year. All in all, 20% of the peasants have become poor, while about 20% have become "obviously wealthy." Lamented the Red report: "Some peasants show no interest in politics . . . They think that the revolution has been completed...
...That Forsyte Woman" was a potentially great film because there are few women in contemporary literature who would make as fascinating subjects to characterize as the Irene of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." An adequate portryal of this subtle, beautiful woman in her relations with one of England's nouveau riche dynasties would require consummate skill and perception. Unfortunately neither Greer Garson nor her lovers (Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Walter Pidgeon) showed this; but they were not entirely to blame...