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...Chauncey Depew asked her what was holding it up, she cooed, "Your age and my discretion." Outfitted in the latest fashions and draped with $500,000 worth of jewelry ("gifts from my admirers"), she cut a figure of elegance and sauciness on her cross-country tours in a private Pullman. The press trailed her everywhere, reported her forays into the Monte Carlo casinos, her nude swims in the Mediterranean, her dietetic secrets (one meal a day, fortified with a pre-bed glass of milk mixed with ten drops of iodine). Roads, perfumes, sundaes were named after...
Kresge knew well how to pinch pennies-or at least nickels and dimes. He bought his clothes off the ready-to-wear racks, traveled in a Pullman upper berth because the fare was lower than for the lower. He allowed himself the luxury of a 10? shoeshine, but stopped after his shoeshine boy raised the price to 15?. Colleagues once persuaded him to take up golf as a hobby, along with beekeeping he had enjoyed since boyhood, but he soon gave up the game because he lost too many golf balls. Invited to speak at the 1953 dedication of Harvard...
Prone to Trouble. Judge Alexander, 67, a Negro who worked as a waiter, dining-car chef and Pullman porter in his teens and then graduated with honors from Harvard Law School ('23), first analyzed the question of need. He noted that the poor "are just prone to legal trouble. It is, in a sense, a way of life with them." As a judge, Alexander has "seen at first hand the helplessness and bewilderment of the poor when faced with the legalities of our complex society." The poor need lawyers not only to stay out of jail, he said...
...prime, nothing better epitomized travel in the age for which it was named than the Twentieth Century Limited. A 1902 passenger once declared that it made New York and Chicago practically suburbs of each other. It did so with an all-Pullman splendor that offered both fresh-and saltwater baths, barbers and a library. Soprano Nellie Melba, the Armours, the Swifts and Teddy Roosevelt rode the train, and oldtime waiters recall that early-rising Herbert Hoover was invariably first up for breakfast. But in recent years, ordinary coaches had to be added to match the fare ($43) at which jets...
Paderewski, who sported a shock of golden-red hair that would dent a hedge clipper, toured with an entourage in a private Pullman car. Yet he was so insecure about his playing that he practiced 17 hours a day and often had to be shoved onto the stage. De Pachmann was dubbed "the Chopinzee." He used to dip each pinkie in a glass of brandy before a recital and frequently interrupted himself mid-performance to tell the audience how well he was doing...