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This time, Novelist Stead's people are the genteel, moderately well-to-do Massines of Manhattan. There are two kinds of Massines: the ineffectual angels and the merely ineffectual. They like music, love dogs, hate snobbery and believe in family loyalty, but their will and ambition have gone soft. A bit decayed yet not decadent, they are rather like their 1,000-acre summer estate, an impressive old place that is slowly turning to weed...
...Just Happened." Scion of a well-to-do Cleveland family, Dave Ingalls was educated at St. Paul's and Yale, married Louise Harkness of the Standard Oil family. Dave Ingalls made the jump to politics at an early age. Armed with a Harvard law degree, a chestful of decorations as the Navy's only World War I ace (four sure kills), he was elected to the Ohio legislature at 27, won a second term on a barnstorming campaign in his own plane. With the sponsorship of an old aviator friend who knew his way around the Hoover Administration...
...people of Bloomingdale, Ala., Lilian Sayre must have seemed a lucky girl. Conventionally pretty and completely ordinary, she had come from a farm village in the middle of the state and married handsome Carl Sayre. He was only a grocer, to be sure, but by Bloomingdale standards he was well-to-do and a good catch. Their failure in marriage began on the wedding night, when Carl got raving drunk. Lilian had neither the intelligence nor the maturity to try to understand Carl, a decent enough fellow when he was not drinking. As time went on, he came to think...
Cleve Barfield, well-to-do kaolin mine operator, has his mind on another man's wife and an ancient legal injustice when he is jockeyed into the thankless job of captaining what looks like the town's losing battle against the river. Twenty years before, one of his Trafford in-laws had been mysteriously murdered. Later, a luckless Negro, pawning the dead man's watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces...
Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...