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Dumaine went to work for Coolidge at 14 as a $4-a-week office boy, and became his protégé. Sent to Amoskeag to work in the mill, Dumaine became boss, ran it for 30 years. When the mill, short of cash, collapsed in the depression, Dumaine was raked over at a congressional hearing for the way he had run the company. But Dumaine was already busy with another baby: the Waltham Watch Co. He had bought control in the 1920s when the company was run down, and made it tick. Until recent years, when he began cutting...
Robbed: Hirohito & family. Somebody got into the palace grounds and made away with 15 white Leghorns that had been protégées of the Empress herself...
...Shock. The choice of Koussevitzky's successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
...years the Institute for Advanced Study (which has no connection with Princeton University but is generally confused with it) has attracted some of the world's best minds. It offers them a moderate salary, an office, and leisure to write books, tutor prize protégés (who are all Ph.D.s) or just sit around and think...