Word: careers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain, his first lesson began to sink in: Fascism was designed for export, and anybody who did not want to import it must fight it. Somewhere between Valencia, blitzed Barcelona and Madrid, his ivory tower crumbled, and Matthews stepped from its rubble to do the best reporting of his career. Because it was also optimistic reporting, he wound up feeling as sick at heart as the Spanish Republicans...
...shirt, a fighting cock and a few books. Poverty kept him rebellious, but it also made him patient, diligent, capable of drudgery. He became an editor. At 30, by borrowing money, he bought the Lynchburg Daily News. Inevitably he got into politics. But he did not begin his real career until he went to Congress...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr., speaking at a "career clinic" at Adelphi College (Garden City, L.I.), offered advice on marriage. Some of it: "Don't take your husband for granted. Don't let your brain be fallow. . . . Take an intelligent interest. . . . Don't be a yes-woman ... keep your criticisms to the minimum. . . ." A career and marriage can't be mixed in equal parts, said she, for "one is sure to become a hobby...
Leave It to the Girls (Sat. 9 p.m., Mutual). Four prominent career girls give unrehearsed answers to questions anent life & love...
...toughest fights of Midwesterner Kirkeby's nine-year career as a hotelman, and the stakes were high: control of Manhattan's 375-room Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Sharply at 10 a.m., big, confident Mr. Kirkeby arrived at 14 Wall Street for the annual meeting of Sherneth Corp., which owns the Sherry-Netherland...