"A story from an old colleague relates that, when Kagan was young and at a private firm, she encountered a young, single partner making $750,000 a year. "So she asked the guy, 'What do you do with all that money?' And he said, 'I buy art.' I remember her telling that story and just shaking her head." MJ Andersen suggests why visual art could be good for judges …"
"Recounts the actor, 'During the dress rehearsal of Godot, I crouched by the stage door of the Comedy Theatre [in Melbourne], getting some air, my bowler hat at my feet [and] seeing an unkempt old man down on his luck, a passer-by said, 'Need some help, brother?' and put a dollar in my hat.'"
"KNOCK, knock, knock. That’s me, rapping on the front door of a large brick house set high above Main Street in Amherst, Mass. September 1963. I’m 16.A woman in a white uniform — a nurse? a maid? — appears. “Someone important to me once lived here,” I say. “I wonder if I could look inside.”"
"'Hemingway was very fond of loafers,' said Patrick Hemingway, the writer's 82-year-old son. 'A lot of celebrity endorsements are phony, but not in this case. Hemingway had a great sense of style. He especially loved leather boots from Madrid.'"
