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Toward Pessimism. Nothing in Alsop's upbringing, or, for that matter, in his early newspapering years, suggests his role as a soothsayer of doom. Born 48 years ago in Avon, Conn., son of a well-to-do tobacco raiser, Joe Alsop idled, read and ate his way through adolescence. Groton and Harvard, emerging a 5 ft. 9 in., 245-Ib. magna cum laude dandy addicted to French cuffs and French pastry, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the decay of ancient civilizations-Egypt, the Mayans, Greece and Rome. By then it was clear that Joe had no real interest...
...immigrant peddler who turned to real estate to get money to educate his children. Julius Tishman built small tenements in downtown Manhattan until 1910. Then he decided, against all advice, to erect a nine-story luxury apartment on Manhattan's West 93rd Street, despite a tradition that no well-to-do New Yorker would live above 86th Street. The building was profitable, and Julius Tishman made his fortune by continuing to build above 86th Street for the next ten years...
...education is, however, certainly not the sole reason the village maintains a fine high school. Most residents of this town of about 14,000 have had college educations themselves and are highly concerned with providing a good education for their children. With a large proportion of educationally minded and well-to-do residents, Scarsdale thus has the will and the means to provide top schooling...
...operation such as this," Harpel added, "you've got to have division of labor, this means that we'll have to have salesmen, photographers, and also developers" for darkroom work. He emphasized that while the organization is aimed at helping the needy student, the well-to-do photographer--if he is good--will not be discriminated against...
Simplicity Plus Richness. Renewed interest in Art Nouveau has also caught up the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany, well-to-do son of the founder of Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., who started out as an artist, switched, along with Artist John La Farge, to experiments with hand-blown glass, and became the most fashionable decorator of his day. Tiffany held that "simplicity is the foundation of all really effective decoration" and he proved that simplicity need not rule out richness and beauty...