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...writer has received about 600 letters during the past four years from classmates and only in two instances can he recall any note of discouragement, even though some were forced into such work as building birdhouses, lifeguarding, etc. To show you how they went after jobs: One chap in New York pestered the personnel manager of a large New York concern so much that the latter finally hired him to handle other pestering college graduates...
...That Egyptian piece turned up in Paris very mysteriously," continued Dr. Barnes. "No one seems to know when or how it got out of Egypt. I was thunderstruck when I saw it. The chap who had it had been over to London with it but the British museum couldn't raise the money...
...work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...coaxing, flattery or bribery will induce them to let us take photographs or to sketch them. An explanation of this dislike of photography perhaps may be that provided by Albertina. . . . She flashed on the writers and announced: 'Give you my picture? A photo? Not me! The last chap I gave my picture to showed it to the police and they...
...three-quarter beds in one little room where there were no sanitary facilities; no running water, all huddled there together." Of Father Parker, who has an impediment in his speech and a hernia which prevents him from doing any heavy work, Representative Dunn declared: "This man . . . is not a chap that could become an executive. He perhaps could not do ordinary clerical work. ... In fact I found that he could not even read or write...