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孟词宗 发表于 2015-2-8 05:17 y$ a0 }: |0 M, p/ ?' T8 T
貌似以前有个笑话: J0 u* ^0 T" T
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洛克菲勒的儿子出门都住高级旅馆而他本人从来只住最便宜的小旅店。别人问为啥?洛克菲 ... & b7 c ^& c/ g1 U$ t& W4 E
这个笑话我估计不是事实,Ron Chernow的书里没有提到,而且和书里其它的描述不相符。3 l4 y) ?+ s- }! N
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我在另一个地方读到过和它相类似的一个故事,但是故事的主人公变成了James Phelan。下面这一段来自Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life,关于19世纪爱尔兰移民的那部分。
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James Phelan (1818-1900) is the kind of Irish Immigrant not usually discussed. He emigrated to New York and moved on to Cincinnati, where by 1848 he had a wholesale grocery business worth perhaps $40,000. Drawn to San Francisco by the gold rush, he made his first fortune selling provisions to miners and then became a real estate magnate and one of the city's first millionaires. His son, James D. Phelan, became a United States senator and a leader of the anti-Asian movement. For a while father and son had officies in the modern "Phelan block" that the father built, where, as the story goes, the elder Phelan was once asked by the building's cigar counter operator why he smoked five-cent cigars although his son smoked twenty-five-cent ones. "Because," Phelan snapped back, showing a mindset that only Protestants are supposed to have employed, "he has a millionaire for a father and I don't." ) w1 H q( f, I
$ H& e" {2 _( x) S- ^8 G我猜测这个故事是在流传的过程中,因为Phelan不出名,讲起来的喜剧效果不那么好,因此就换成了洛克菲勒,妇孺皆知的亿万富翁。
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