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...fault is not Robinson's. As Jerry Kingsley, a well-to-do. 53-year-old widower who falls in love with a girl of 24 (Gena Rowlands), Robinson is neither cinematic nor Little-Caesarish. He plays with feeling and skill. Age-conscious to begin with, made brutally aware of the perils of marriage as he proceeds, he is ruefully realistic, but always with an ear cocked for romance. The part comes off; the play does...
...from Iowa. Young Funston had good reason to think so. He was born on Oct. 12, 1910, in Waterloo, Iowa, into a moderately well-to-do family. Later the family moved to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where his father, George Edwin Funston, owned the International Savings Bank. Funston. an honor student in school and an ardent Boy Scout, seemed to have an assured future until everything changed in 1924. In a bank panic that year, the family wealth was swept away, and Funston, in his freshman year at high school, had to earn money to go to college. He candled...
...ancient sect of dissenters from Hinduism made up largely of well-to-do Indians...
...shingle in Baltimore (his mother took the rug off her living-room floor to put in his office). Nothing happened. It was 1933, and hardly anybody was worth suing. Marshall's practice lost him $1,000 the first year. The next year he did better, building up a well-to-do clientele and a reputation, but he was increasingly involved in low-fee hard-work cases on civil rights. In a Maryland court, he won separate-but-equal status for a client. Donald Murray at the University of Maryland School of Law, a right about which he felt strongly...
Born. To Armi Kuusela, 20, Finland's blue-eyed 1952 Miss Universe, and Virgilio Hilario, 28, well-to-do Philippine real-estate man; their first child, a son; in Manila. Name: Gil Aarne. Weight...