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Upon reading of the $50,000 first-year salaries offered to some graduates of Stanford and Harvard Business Schools, many observers have compared the intense bidding for graduates of the nation's more prestigious business schools to the high-priced baseball free agent market. If this analogy is an apt one, then Exxon's Max McCreery is the MBA market's George Steinbrenner. As chief corporate recruiter for Exxon's New York headquarters, McCreery can offer prospective executives the same inducements the Yankee owner dangles before baseball stars--a high salary, a successful employer, and a name almost synonomous with...
...wrong, as the story he appears in proves. Bowen consistently found language for feelings that might otherwise have simply seemed preposterous. She worked artfully to make her work appear unlabored. An apt, if unintended, description of her achievement appears in Ivy Gripped the Steps, one of her finest stories. A young boy visits a seaside resort and marvels at the glittering life he sees...
Given a sympathetic new President with a keen interest in the subject, this impressive chorus of discontent will probably inspire the appointment of study commissions and the production of all kinds of reports, analyses and perhaps even proposals for change. But what action is apt to occur? Is any important rearrangement of the powers of federal and state governments likely? The prevailing suspicion is voiced by Michigan's Republican Lieutenant Governor James Brickley: not confident that anything substantial can be done...
...American Clock. If ever there was an apt laureate for the Great Depression, the role belongs to Arthur Miller. Here he dissects that national trauma by relating it, directly and most movingly, to his personal family history. Miller's sister, Joan Copeland, an actress of uncommon integrity, played the mother and gave the evening a transfusion of emotional vibrancy...
...Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with the remedy and apt to mistake its signs for battering. That possibility, as well as doctors' skepticism about the value of coin rubbing, has caused many immigrants to avoid needed medical care...