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Frank Stanton arrived in New York in 1935 with his wife, a wire-haired fox terrier, a second-hand Ford, a list of modestly priced Manhattan hotels-and an empty wallet. It was the most significant trip he had made outside his native Midwest since his teens, when he had attended a Y.M.C.A. conference in Finland as the official representative of the "Hi-Y" boys of Ohio. Many of his fellow executives think he has retained, to this day, an air of Y.M.C.A. earnestness and unblinking sincerity. One of them describes him as "just a country boy with a Madison...
According to Nash's report, there is reason to suspect that McHugh is the same person who successfully raided his Conant room on September 18, when a wallet and watch were taken. At that time a duplicate key was also stolen...
...this traditional festival day, 'Cliffedwellers pay compulsory subscription fees and all club dues in one wallet-thinning sweep. Booths in Agassiz have ben set up for the purpose...
...Francesco Guardi were matched against a soft, misty one by Corot. He contrasted Stefan Lochner's strict, gothic Presentation in the Temple with a tasty chunk of cheesecake by Francois Boucher, entitled Cupid and the Graces. Clearly, Collector Gulbenkian's appetite was wide and deep as his wallet...
Traditionally the advanced student took his lodgings where he could find them, and generally high rents in Cambridge often meant he found them far away. The quality of his meals was directly proportional to the padding in his wallet. This meant Locke-Ober's occasionally but the Hayes-Bickford often. In either case, dinner table education was nothing to the graduate student but a memory from his college days. Education for the graduate student tended to be a tense business rather than the congenial occupation it had been before...