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...cruised near by in case he got tired. And from childhood on, wherever he went, David was continually coming up against institutions that his family's money helped to keep open. It was at one of these, the New York Museum of Natural History, where David worked for three schoolboy summers, that he acquired his passion for collecting beetles. Today he has 40,000 specimens carefully mounted on pins in cabinets in the basement of his Pocantico home. The beetles offer an easy answer for people who want to give a present to a Rockefeller; foreign bankers often arrive...
...Rome disguised as priests. Their mission: to spy on the Germans and send their reports out by carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, the priests meet a couple of broads (Elsa Martinelli and Gabriella Pallotta), and the pigeons meet with fowl play-they end up in a pot. Next day a sneaky schoolboy steals a fresh flock of pigeons from Gestapo headquarters...
...Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. That challenge to church teaching has always been said to mark Luther's real break with Rome, and for more than 400 years Protestants have celebrated the anniversary of this clerical Sarajevo...
Beauty in Slop Jars. Such is his rare candor to his elder confidant that he is able to confess the first signs in himself of a troubled spirit, "feeling inexplicably like crying or biting into something or beating it with my fists." Also, while still a schoolboy, he salutes the first intimations of his special vision of life, "feeling the beauty of everything, not excluding slop jars and foetuses-and a feeling of love for everything-and now I've run into Walt Whitman-and it seems as if I've dived into a sort of infinitudeof beautiful...
...Boys call one another by such Brooklyn schoolboy nicknames as "Doodie" or "Schmultzie." "This is a relaxed company," says Ferkauf, "so there is no need for formalities." At Korvette's, in fact, it is imprudent of any executive to throw his rank around. One store manager who got too highhanded with his subordinates was conspicuously omitted from a stock bonus list. Says he: "I'm nothing but a nice guy now. I learned the hard...