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...would be listed only one way in the phone book. But which way? That was left up to Calcutta University (which already standardizes its students' names). A faculty board found that the high-caste ancestors of present-day Mukerjees, etc., had all been imported from Benares 600 years ago by a Bengali king who wanted to increase the number of Brahmans in his realm. When the British East India Company came to Calcutta, the Brahmans' descendants flocked to work as babus (clerks). Their employers promptly shortened the babus' names and made them more pronounceable for British tongues...
...dawning in Cape Breton Island's long-troubled coalfields. Most of the old bitterness between management and labor was gone, and they were working together to increase production. (Only two years ago, a Royal Commission had reported: "The men ... so distrusted the present management that they could see no hope for ... cooperation between men and management in improving the efficiency of production...
...Dominion Coal Co.* could be expected to do some hard bargaining before granting any such increases, and would probably tie them to production boosts. Two years ago, Dosco's miners were digging only 1.6 tons of coal per man-day (against 6.3 in the U.S.). Two weeks ago, Dosco reported that June production was up to 2.53 tons-near the prewar peak -and still rising toward a goal of 4.5 tons in 1953. Much of the increase is due to mechanization, which the miners once fought, now support...
Manhattan Adman Arthur W. Collins, 45, who thought up Kaleidoscope, left the New York Sun two years ago to turn his idea into a magazine. From such backers as Motor Heir Jack F. Chrysler, Tobacco Heir Angier Biddle Duke and Milwaukeean Joseph E. Uihlein Jr. (Schlitz beer), he got more than $500,000. But until he lured buxom Martha Stout away from the editorship of Hearst's Junior Bazaar, Collins had no magazine...
...Shoulder. Thirteen years ago, Kup was a $32.50-a-week sportwriter on the Times. Son of a West Side bakery driver, he worked his way through Northwestern and the University of North Dakota, was a quarterback and college publicity man. His career as a pro footballer (with the Philadelphia Eagles) lasted only five games; a shoulder injury turned him into a sport reporter. In 1943 the Times let him try a column. Cracked Kup: "I spent all my time in nightclubs anyway...