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Author David Riesman tries to be an autonomous man, and many of his friends think that he achieves a high degree of success. He was born 45 years ago this week into a well-to-do Philadelphia home. At Harvard he majored in chemistry, then switched to law. Later he became a law clerk to Justice Brandeis, practiced in Boston, taught law at the University of Buffalo. He did not become a full-fledged social scientist until 1946, when he joined the Chicago faculty. He wrote The Lonely Crowd during two years at Yale...
Radical Partisan. Ives was born Jan. 24, in 1896, in upstate Bainbridge, the only child of a moderately well-to-do coal "and feed merchant. After two years at Hamilton College, he went off to serve in World War I as an infantry lieutenant in France. After the war he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton, settled briefly in Brooklyn with his wife and infant son. Ives had a hard time stretching his $100-a-month salary as a bank clerk to cover the family bills, became an embittered, somewhat radical partisan of the underprivileged. When another bank offered...
...last week, newspapers ran double-truck ads with the word "Go", in 15-in.-high type. The small type below explained that Ohrbach's famed and prosperous clothing supermarket was leaving its down-at-the-heels quarters on 14th Street to go 20 blocks uptown and "join the well-to-do company of Macy's and Gimbels...
...according to some who bear it, goes back to about 1300 when their forebears were driven from Portugal because they were Jews. Those who fled to France added their new homeland's name. The Premier is frequently called only Mendes (pronounced Mahn-dess). Pierre's parents were well-to-do and he received good schooling...
Italy's aggressive Monarchist Party, a 34 small growth which developed into Italy's fourth largest party, had split in two. The Monarchists, basically a right-wing collection financed by Italy's well-to-do, favored a return to monarchy under a constitution, yet did not seem really to think it feasible professed support of parliamentary democracy yet often voted with Communists, fellow travelers and neo-Fascists against Italy's hard-pressed Christian Democratic center. Contradictions of purpose and tactics hurried the split, but it .was specifically caused by the rivalry of two strong figures...