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...jazzy-looking lad who has walked into his general store. Then his eyes blink back the tears. "Well, I-I see you've grown some. But then, you do grow some between 15 and 23." Before the day is out, Prodigal Son Davie is acting like a new broom, ordering the store front painted bright red, plate glass for the big window, the latest finery for his mother...
...assure you," he said, while Bill Boyle stared glumly at the ceiling, "that if there is anyone in headquarters who should not be there, or whose hands are not clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine...
Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...
...Greece: Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, whose new-broom conservative "Greek Rally" Party (TIME, Sept. 10) led the field in the Greek election this week, came close to getting an absolute majority of parliament seats. That means that Papagos may try to form a government without taking in all of Greece's old-line politicos, who in the past have made up Greece's weak coalition cabinets. Papagos, whose tough leadership (together with U.S. aid) defeated the Reds in the civil war, has a simple platform: housecleaning. Says he: "Economy everywhere . . . It is wrong to expect everything from...
...Heavenly Year. At first glance, Wagner and Rollins had seemed a perfect team -the union of a lively and energetic president with a lively and imaginative campus. Like any new broom, Wagner made a few mistakes. Some professors took a dim view of his enthusiasm for visual aids, which he had developed as No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. ("After all," complained one professor, "he did make that startling prediction that only 5% of the people would be reading books in 50 years"). Some students resented his attempts to tighten up Rollins' traditionally free & easy...