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Her Halpern clan is a family of cartoon monsters. Vulgar, egomaniacal Mama (Ruth Gordon) is a compulsive shopper with delusions of solvency. Masochistic Papa (Walter Matthau) is a corner-cutting shoe manufacturer who is going bankrupt in a paroxysm of anguish and gallows humor. Son Bernie (Anthony Holland) is a...
Sir Isaac himself is a teetotaler and nonsmoker, who proudly insists that his personal expenses are covered by a shilling (14?) a day. He is more generous with others. His Isaac Wolfson Foundation, set up in 1955 with $17 million in G.U.S. stock, has donated more than $12 million to...
Without the House system, student rent was a mere 16 shillings, and an extra 2 shillings went for glass-mending (broken windows). Gallery money for a required seat in the meetinghouse cost a shilling a year.
Then it dawned on the British pride that some rich American collector or museum would in all likelihood buy the drawing and take it away. Snowed under by protests, the fusty academy agreed to postpone the sale. Since then, more than 703,000 Britons have seen the once neglected work...
Charles Wood had, until three years ago, worked as a janitor at the British Ford plant in Dagenham, Essex. Since his retirement, he and his wife Marie had been hoarding every shilling against the day that they could take off for a visit to Marie's sister, who lived...