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The key ingredient of all the new plans is that they give money to employees several years in the future and only if they stay with the company. These ties that bind have become known in industry as "golden handcuffs." While they have long been common for very top executives...
Heavy Breathing. But Lean has opted for bombast rather than character development, scope instead of dramatic tension. The time is 1916, and Britain's thin red line of empire is being besieged on two sides by the Boches and the Irish Republican Army. Rosy is a willful, discontented lass...
Died. Captain W. E. Johns, 75, the portly English author who created Biggies, a World War I flying ace whose daredevil exploits and incorruptible character thrilled a worldwide audience of 20 million readers; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Hampton Court, England. Writing of swirling aerial duels between Biggies' Sopwith Camel...
The other is a simple and inarticulate pastry-chef who seems to have no other reason for fighting except his father-in-law. "We must kill all the Boches," his father-in-law tells him. All?" he asks, amazed. "Well, anyway, as many as possible."
Jean Moulin, alias Joseph Mercier, alias Regis, alias Max, who held the unexciting prewar job of prefect of Chartres, had simply decided to stand up to the boches. Once, after being tortured by the Germans, his courage failed him and he tried to slit his throat (afterward, he always wore...