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...family was not his own; it belonged to Mary Winternitz. As Cheever tells it, he picked up Mary in the street, simply because she was beautiful and he fell in love with her. Pressed for details, he says that it was at 545 Fifth Avenue. Actually, their meeting was rich in social comedy of the ironic kind that Cheever simply doesn't deal with or acknowledge when it is there. As Mary tells it, she was working as a sort of trainee-typist in the office of Cheever's literary agent, Maxim Lieber...
Father was indeed a formidable man, the redoubtable Dr. Milton C. Winternitz, dean of the Yale Medical School, spectacularly dynamic and articulate, and full of the authoritarian traditions of his profession. In short, a character to delight Cheever's heart. To Mary's faint astonishment, John immediately became a member of the family from which she herself had fled...
...Watson, come here"). Dr. Winternitz himself was in a state of passionately transferred loyalties. Born a Jew, he had become what Freud, in his study on the technique of wit, called ante-Semitic. "When my mother died, he thought he would improve his social position by marrying a Whitney, but I don't think he did," Mary says drily, leaving no doubt as to her opinion of the high life at New Haven, Conn., which the Winternitz-Whitney family maintained...
People spoke, but no one took any action. Dr. Milton C. Winternitz stood up at Yale and tried to organize a "master dentist" plan. He proposed that a dentist who also held a medical degree be placed in charge of clinics of regular dentist, and that the dentists consult the master dentist on all cases in order to be sure that every complication was take care of. He was laughed down...
There were 6,600 different items in the auction, some of them in lots of more than 5,000. To Chicagoans, auctioneering Samuel L. Winternitz & Co.'s 995-page inventory brought nostalgic reminders of the hotel's heyday in the '20s. To the buyers who flocked into auction headquarters in the 21-story Electric Garage, the lots were mouth-watering reminders of the days before rationing and stop-production orders. Items...