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...worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris after two years, moved to Ma Kelleher's boarding house in Flint, where he got room and board for $3 a week. He answered an AC Spark Plug want ad for a bookkeeper, was asked in the interview what his ambition might be. Said the brash young man to his future boss: "Your job, within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Battle of Detroit | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...turning over to him classified documents, and that he had, in fact, on at least one occasion, received and made use of such information (in the 2¼ page summary Joe tried to pass off as a letter from J. Edgar Hoover). Williams contented himself with checking the ac curacy of the reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: New Kind of Hearing for Joe | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...main thing wrong with the future." she broods, "is that it gets here so much sooner than it used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...veteran traveler. He began traveling early in life, he says, simply because his father, Actor Eddie Dowling, and his mother, Comedienne Ray Dooley, "were always on the road." At about the age of one year John made his own stage debut. It was a vaudeville act in which an ac tor uncle carried him across the stage in a harness arrangement made of diapers fitted with a suitcase handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...going to limit production where there is no profit . . . The farmer and rancher can't buy machinery, household supplies, clothes, and get for their produce prices at the bottom of the ladder. One answer is for small operators to sell directly to the consumer who has ac cess to home freezers and commercial lock ers. A cushion for seasonal fluctuations is the answer to inflation, labor unions, fairtrade agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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