When it wasn't everything.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

My own experience with the generation that grew up in the thirties and forties was different. None of my friends at Charleston High School talked about getting rich. Which is not to say that we lacked ambition. But it was for accomplishment and recognition. As our lives developed, only two of us earned as much as $100,000 a year: one who became head of a family company and another who happened to live in New York and be a good lawyer, which made a generous income almost inevitable. As for the rest of us, one became a clergyman, two...