The Rich Different - They Are Cheaper Than You and Me (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Trump, scumbag)

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 17 11:03:25 PST 2007


The first judge I clerked for, Walter Cummings, Jr., (now unfortunately dead) came from old money and was a cheapskate too. His father, Walter, Sr. had been chairman, I think, of the Continental Illinois Bank and first head of FDIC. The judge had the world's worst toupee. He drove a huge 10 year old Buick, wore cheap suits -- cheaper than mine! -- threadbare. The only item of value in his chambers was a vast carved table that came from the East India Company, family inheritance, I think. I can't imagine that he'd ever buy such a thing His furniture was all cheap gov't issue stuff I don't think he'd redecorated his Lake Shore Drive apartment -- he'd always boast what a good deal he got on on it (he did) -- since his first wife died; the decorations were obviously hers. I actually think he took pride in not spending money on show.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:10 PM, joanna wrote:
>
> >> On 1/17/07, andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Also, why can't a man that rich get a better
> hairpiece?
> >>
> > Because there _is_ justice in this world?
>
> An old pal once explained Trump to me by point out
> that he grew up
> semi-rich - his father, Fred, built middle-income
> housing in the
> outer boroughs of NYC in the decades after WW II -
> so he never felt
> the need to please that more nouveau types
> experience. He doesn't
> care what you think of his hair. Some arriviste
> would probably have a
> stylist and pay $1,000 a haircut.
>
> Doug
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