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...movies twice a month and walked in the park with his twelve-year-old daughter on Sundays. His simple political philosophy: "I worked 20-odd years, and management never did much for me. Now, since the revolution I got a pay increase, a bonus, and an old-age pension. Perón did that. I voted...
Gentle Cartoonist McCutcheon began thinking of calling it quits about the time Bertie McCormick began flogging the New Deal. Retiring now on a fat pension, he plans to loll on his own "Treasure Island" in the Bahamas, poke around the U.S., edit a book of his cartoons. As he once cracked in an after-dinner speech: "I draw to a close, perhaps one of my most successful drawings...
Tomorrow night the full Glee Cub chorus will sing at the Pension Fund Concert. At all three Concerts the group, assisted by the Radcliffe Choral Society, will render the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in D Minor...
...grateful nation, which thought Emma Hamilton's rank little better than a whore's, took him at his word. To a respectable brother, the Rev. William Nelson, went an earldom, a 3,000-acre estate, Trafalgar, in Wiltshire and a pension of ?5,000 yearly to be paid to his heirs forever. To Emma went nothing; she died ten years later, a raddled and penniless old woman, in France...
Last week Emma had her revenge. After 140 years and ?700,000 of payments, His Majesty's Government announced a plan to terminate its last "perpetual" pension. The amiable, doddering, 88-year-old fourth Earl or his 85-year-old brother Edward will continue to collect while they live. To keep the next heir, Edward's 55-year-old son Albert, from starving, the Government obligingly plans to remove the family entail from Trafalgar House. When and if it is sold, future heirs will retain only an empty earldom, a coat of arms, and the bitter comfort...