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...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...
...return for an electric blender. He buys Tonto a Scotch in a Las Vegas casino and spends the night in jail for pissing into a potted fern in the lobby. In the end, Tonto dies and Harry is offered a chance to move in with a well-preserved widow in Miami. Life goes on; Harry finds...
...faceful of social outrage in the very first scene. A bunch of young kids sit on a stage, squirming in the summer heat as some starchy board of education types present them with scholastic awards. One old caricature, decked out in clothes more appropriate to a stroll on a widow's walk, extols an essay written by young Sonny Carson. She tells the audience all about how wonderful it is that this young Negro boy has raised himself up out of the slums, written about a few of his experiences, and set himself on the path of success...
...Governor (1966-70). He gave millions to education and other causes in his adopted state and as Governor attempted to reform the state's notorious prison system. Nor is there an office in Rockefeller Plaza for John Jr.'s oldest child, Daughter Abby Mauze, 70, the widow of Banker Jean Mauze. Although she has been a major contributor to cancer research and donated a small park to New York City, she and her philanthropies have been overshadowed by those of her brothers. Explains John D. Ill: "It was five to one, and this was before women...
...central figure in Himmelfarb's thesis is Harriet Taylor, the imposing feminist whom the not so liberated Mill married two years after her first husband's death in 1849. Mill just met her in 1830, beginning 21 long and proper years of platonic intimacy. Widow of a prosperous merchant and mother of three children, this humorless firebrand longed for the Irish to stage a revolution to match France's, adding: "The Irish would, I should hope, not.be frightened but urged on by some loss of life...