Portraits of Older Workers
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Irving Fields: Pianist
Irving Fields got his first break at 16, singing on “Amateur Hour,” the national radio show. He won first prize: $50 — a lot of money in 1932. “When I got back to our apartment in Brooklyn, my whole family was there, and I threw the money up in the air. Fifty one-dollar bills blowing in the air, a thrill for me,” he recalls. posted at 09:53:26 AM | permalink
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Bill and Ruth Stein: Booksellers
Ruth Stein inspired this project. She’s my mother-in-law (more or less). She and Bill, her husband of 62 years, are sales reps for a bunch of book publishers. They work four days a week, driving from their apartment-cum-showroom in Manhattan to a split-level in Westchester every weekend. Occasionally, especially after a set of 14-hour days at a trade show, they admit to being pooped. More tiring, though, is fielding the perennial question, “So when are you going to retire?” Over dinner one night Ruth turned to me and said, “Why don’t you write about that?”
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