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...many other well-bred British novels, they are nothing but a pair of author's notions dressed in well-cut suits of prose. Asked to play the role of human beasts, they answer, quite rightly, that they were never destined to be anything more than their tailor's dummies...
...truly democratic school system. This "is a form of insistence that all be held down to a level, rather than . . . trying to raise all to a level." Nonetheless, "parents can get a superior education for their children in private schools . . . Like owning a Cadillac or wearing tailor-made clothes, the superior education costs money . . . [But] in our democracy there is nothing against buying something better if you can afford...
...Miserable." Dave Lawrence started out his career at 15 as a reporter on the Buffalo Express. The son of a poor Jewish tailor who immigrated from England, he earned his way through Princeton, where he fell under the influence of Princeton President Woodrow Wilson. He landed a job as the A.P.'s campus correspondent, later exposed the practice by which student-correspondents paid their predecessors $50 bribes to get recommended to the wire services. He struck up an acquaintance with former President Grover Cleveland and his wife, who lived near by, once thoughtfully told Mrs. Cleveland that he would...
Hyman George Rickover was born in 1900 in the small, predominantly Jewish village of Makowa, Russian Poland, where his father, Abraham Rickover, was a tailor. By 1904 father Abraham had saved 100 rubles (then $50) and managed to reach New York. In another two years of hard work, he saved enough to send for his family. Ruchal (Rose) Rickover and her two children, Fanny, 8, and Hyman, 6, made their way across Germany, sleeping in bleak dormitories provided by German Jews. When they saw their first ships at Antwerp, the future admiral, Hyman, burst into tears. "The boats were...
...refugees. A third child, Gitel (Augusta), was born in 1908. Two years later the Rickovers left Manhattan's seething East Side and moved to Chicago. Prosperous enough to avoid the slums, they settled in respectable Lawndale. They never went hungry again. Father Abraham always had work as a tailor. In 1919 he started a small garment factory, which he sold in 1946. Now he owns an apartment house on Chicago's North Side. Though 79 and comfortably fixed, he still plugs away as a tailor "to provide...