Word: uptowners
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...Little Bookie. Mortimer Adler started strangling the snake of positivism almost in his cradle. He grew up in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in uptown Manhattan (his father was a jewelry salesman, his mother an ex-schoolteacher). He often told his playmates: "Go away. I'm thinking," and shut the door of his room on them. He was a prolific writer (to get one short story published, he mimeographed his own newspaper, which lasted for two issues). He thought he might become a poet. Sample effort: "Girls are funny creatures / Though some have pretty features / And with their whims...
...marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown...
...family got her a special teacher. Carolyn learned the alphabet again, then learned to count up to 31 by reading the calendar. After two weeks her teacher jumped her to second grade. A few weeks later, in fourth grade, Carolyn wrote: "I like to sew. I like to go uptown. I want to go to the Bonclarken Conference [of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church]. I like to ride a bicycle." By the beginning of summer, Carolyn had sailed successfully through eight grades...
Stern Bros, moved uptown to its eight-story store on Manhattan's bustling 42nd Street in 1913, thoughtfully included a carriage entrance in the rear to accommodate the Astors and the Vanderbilts who lived on nearby Fifth Avenue. Both the carriage entrance and most of the carriage trade are gone now, but Puckett thinks Stern's new middle-income customers are right for Allied. To get more customers, Puckett plans to build a string of Stern Bros, suburban stores around New York City. Grossing $33 million last year, Stern's will be the 75th store...
...making $25 a week, was married, and had-with a sense of triumph that only a poor New York boy would understand-moved his wife and mother uptown. He was also an employee of a big corporation: G.E. had bought up Sprague Electric. The changeover made little difference at first. But during World War I (Wilson was turned down by the Army because of his bad eyesight) the Sprague branch opened a shop to build aircraft instrument panels. Charlie ran the show...