Word: wolfson
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Aesthetics often dictates against hyphenation. Says a Washington lawyer representing small businesses who was born Joel Rothstein and is married to a woman named Wolfson: "Rothstein-Wolfson is four syllables and 16 letters. Names get massacred enough. Wolfson becomes Wilson. Rothstein becomes Rothson. You can imagine what people would have done with the two together." But could they come up with a workable union of surnames without resorting to hyphens? "It was important for our kid's last name to be the same as ours," says the lawyer. "Otherwise, one parent gets left out." The solution: Rothstein gave...
...Rolls Royce owned by this man who fought for the rights of the unprotected, who himself had known poverty as a young Jewish boy growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, does matter. Just as the $20,000 fee he accepted from well-known stock manipulator Louis Wolfson or the $15,000 he was paid for a "seminar" he led at American University, all while serving on the Court, mattered to the Senate when Lyndon Baines Johnson nominated him to replace Earl Warren as chief justice...
...proved so adroit in managing the crises that others confronted, suffered from personal paralysis when in similar situations. After all had not Justice William O. Douglas himself had an arrangement with the Parvin Foundation while on the Court that was remarkably similar to Fortas' own connection to the Wolfson Foundation...
...enough. "Anytime you have a situation in which very desirable options are available to students, you have parents trying to beat the game," says Harold Howe II, chairman of the College Board Commission on Precollege Guidance and Counseling. The result is a growing industry in private advisers. Says Barbara Wolfson, who sent her son to a private counselor in Atlanta: "There's a limit to what the school counselors can do." For fees of up to $2,500, private advisers take the time to find out a student's strengths and interests, put together a list of likely choices...
Hufton published her first book, "The Bayeux in the Late 18th Century," in 1967, five years after receiving her Ph.D. in history. She has written two other books, one of which, "The Poor of Eighteenth Century France," won the presitigous Wolfson Award in 1975. The Wolfson Award is the only outstanding history award given annually in England, Hufton said...