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...like that of city editor on an American paper, 36-year-old "Tip" considers his fellowship "a chance to catch up on the education I missed while grinding out newspaper copy." While a law student at the University of Melbourne, he started writing for the Herald in order to augment his scholarship. "But I was so bloody proud to see my stuff in print that I forgot law and stayed with the Herald after graduation." Starting as a copy boy, he quickly rose to war correspondent during World War II and shortly after, he became chief of staff...
Cowan, as Anderson's "outside" employer, hopes that Anderson will regain his municipal job. He says Anderson took the job to augment his $65 a week income in order to provide for an ailing daughter...
...Needs Men (Paul Graetz] goes back a hundred years to tell an absorbing story of the hardy islanders of Sein, off France's Brittany coast, who used to pray for shipwrecks to augment their bare subsistence from the sea. Sometimes they helped their prayers along by luring ships on to the rocks. But when the tiny island's single priest gave up his flock as incorrigible sinners and returned to the mainland, it was unthinkable for the Godfearing islanders to give up their religion. In a curious mixture of devotion and sacrilege, they drafted one of their...
Increased law business due to government controls and government mobilization agencies, he added, will also augment the need for clerks...
Though he obviously enjoys the excitement of such conflicts, Capp gives them little more thought than the average man gives to golf or bowling; few men in the U.S. are so constantly involved in extracurricular activity. Though Capp is a strict teetotaler (mostly because he feels no need to augment his natural exuberance), he is a great man for parties. He talks well, enjoys applause and makes endless public appearances...