Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tree Swimming Pool became the Grant Study, and next week the Grant Study will become the Alumni Records Office, when the alumni and class records personnel and the Publication Agent will leave the top floor of Widener and move into the Study...
...life, once told an interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor...
...less than 50%, while the truckers' share jumped from 10% to 19%. Now, with the help of piggybacking, the roads hope to win back lost ground. Last year truck business slipped to 17.7%, while railroads just about held their own. Says Southern Pacific's Assistant General Freight Agent Ray F. Robinson: "Ninetynine percent of our piggyback business is business we never had before-freight that had been moving over the highway." The Pennsylvania Railroad alone is getting $10 million worth of new business annually by piggybacking. The Pennsy's forecast for 1960: $100 million annually. Furthermore, profits...
...national states regard any proposal to limit their sovereignty-as Deputy Foreign Minister of Sweden he had plenty of practice in thinking in purely nationalistic terms-Hammarskjold moves cautiously, never asks more power than he needs or the situations require. But he refuses to regard himself as a mere agent of a legislature. Given a mission, e.g., to arrange a cease-fire in Egypt. Hammarskjold is guided not by the letter of his instructions but by his understanding of what the majority of the United Nations wants...
Also moving into the Study will be the class records office and the office of the Publication Agent. The Alumni Records office should operate more efficiently, since deliveries wil be made to the floor where the office is located, instead of three floors below, as is the situation in Widener...