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...talking in Los Angeles, but not much. "We're a helluva long way from anything yet," says a Guild spokesman. Aggrieved that they are paid one of the lowest minimums of any sizable paper in the country ($174.80 a week after five years), Guildsmen seek a $25.20-a-week raise over two years. Management has offered $13 over the same period. The longer the strike drags on, the more nonunion personnel the Herald-Examiner hires to put out the paper. It is not much different from the usual one. It skimps on local news, runs a lot of wire...
...format calls for an announcer to read off a list of job openings for anything from a $64-a-week busboy to a $200-a-week accountant. Some offers are for temporary jobs, such as the recent call in Chicago for a $40-a-day bodyguard. Next, personnel managers and employment counselors discuss opportunities or show films on such subjects as apprenticeship programs and interview techniques. The kicker is of ten a success story - a former viewer tells how he got his job as a result of watching the program. Repeatedly during the broadcast, the phone number of the nearest...
Into the middle-middle-class Fisher family, bickering affectionately in a comfortable old house in North Philadelphia, comes the Show-Off, one Aubrey Piper, a $32.50-a-week clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad freight office. A back-slapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming...
...told to report to Oakland Army Terminal Dec. 28 for shipment to Thailand. Then, days later, he received a telegram telling him to disregard the reporting date and await new orders "to follow." Obeying orders to the letter, Smith settled back to wait, meanwhile picking up a $130-a-week logging job. His wife Glenda Fay continued to receive her monthly $95.20 allotment check...
...grocery store and could not pay $5,000 in bills. He issued promissory notes, then piled into a 1938 Chevrolet and drove off with his wife-destination unknown. Only a chance pickup of a Washington, D.C.-bound hitchhiker led them to that city, where he took a $75-a-week job in a paint store. His wife went to work for an insurance com pany. From their combined incomes, Wolman paid off the creditors, and in 1952 he decided to start his own paint-contracting business. This, in turn, led him into real estate-and more debt...