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Mendicant Life. Editor Rabinowitch did not expect the Bulletin to prosper, and he was right. "To say that the Bulletin was founded on a shoestring would be to describe it as overdressed," he says. Despite one of the leanest budgets in the business-currently $24,000 a year-it has...
Sherry is the drink Pamela Frankau is offering here for those who take it-out of a cut-glass decanter, and perhaps a biscuit to go with it. The time is 1926, when England was just recovering from the general strike. Back from assorted boarding schools, the three Weston children...
On a Shoestring. A decade later, Benjamin tried another railroad on the big island of Hawaii. This one was indeed a folly, wound up putting the Dillinghams $4,000,000 in debt-a bigger deficit than the entire Territory of Hawaii had at the time. Walter was called home from...
Creditors hounded him so much, Walter recalled, that he used to hide under desks to avoid them, took to meeting the trains himself so he could "collect fares to pay a few creditors the next day." But as he fought to pull the family out of debt, Walter had his...
Dean DeLamater is starting on a shoestring budget of $57,000, derived entirely from student fees of only $570 a year. What makes this possible is his big hidden asset: the 300 or more U.S. professors who descend on Paris each year for research and sabbaticals. They can be had...