Word: well-to-do
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...reformatory the new teacher came to, but University School, for sons of well-to-do Clevelanders. Six years later, Harry Peters thought he was getting no place as a teacher, decided to try gold-mining instead. The school talked him out of it-by making him headmaster. This week, after 45 years in his first and only job, Harry Peters was ready to call it a day, and hand University School on to another, younger Yaleman: Harold Cruikshank...
...second editor was Dr. Frank Monaghan, a tweedy historian and onetime Yale professor who got the idea of reviving Publick Occurrences while doing a biography of its founder 15 years ago. He thought about it during long months in the Pentagon as an Army P.R.O., later talked a well-to-do Manhattan friend, , William Henry Walling, into printing it without charge. Actress Peggy Wood, wife to Publisher Walling, became "Dramaticks Editor" on the same basis-no pay; Thurman (Folklore of Capitalism) Arnold was signed on as Washington stringer; Novelist H. M. Tomlinson was to report from London...
Like the men who run it, the Kansas City Star lives the quietly comfortable life of a well-liked, well-to-do Midwesterner. Its conservatism is structural, for its owners are 172 key employees. In salary and dividends, they draw up to $50,000 a year. Even one of its police reporters, William Moorhead, is a country-clubbing capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like...
...well-to-do members of the local Italian colony took the singers into their home, fed them spaghetti, baked veal and red wine. Tenor Galliano Masini, onetime member of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, ran around the table, punctuating his protests with bars from Tosca and Carmen. Said he: "After Caruso's death they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing...
Dawning Luminary. The origins of this dawning luminary lay in biographical penumbra beyond the visual range of Hollywood scouts. She was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, Sept. 30, 1921. Her family was neither down-&-out nor well-to-do. Her Scottish father's handsomeness was distilled, in her, to a gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet...