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Jean Dubuffet was never a lover of "false" classical art, and there were times when he was not sure he wanted to be an artist. After a few months of formal training in Paris, he decided that he had "nothing to learn in schools." He became a clerk, then a wine merchant, and for a while he was happy. "I was gaining a foothold. To complicate things, I needed a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids . . . [Then] catastrophe, it took hold of me again. I rented a little atelier on Boulevard Saint-Michel, I locked...
...downtown Washington. There he sat, or stood, throughout the day and night, while others queued up. Margoles was provided with coffee, sandwiches and a sleeping bag by fraternity brothers from George Washington University. When the store opened at 7 a.m. the following day, Margoles darted in, gave a clerk $57 and got a 16-in. demonstrator console television set (normal price: $199) for Phi Sigma Kappa's fraternity house...
...Third Day. News of Connie came to the Charltons intermittently. He served as an enlisted clerk at Aberdeen Proving Ground. He was transferred to Okinawa. Last year, when he was 21, he wrote proudly that he was with the 25th Infantry Division in Korea-and a sergeant. He had raised a mustache "befitting his position." Then the Charltons got word that Connie had been killed...
Every Man a Capitalist. Sears does more than help small capitalists. Says Wood: "The best way to make capitalism work is to make more capitalists. That's what we're doing at Sears." In the low-paying retailing industry, Sears pays clerks an average of $60 a week, considerably above the retail average. But the real device for making capitalists is Sears' profit-sharing plan, which was started by Rosenwald in 1916 and has become the wonder of the pension world. Thousands of Sears employees have retired with small fortunes. Sample: a woman clerk who never made...
...Graduate of the week: Oscar L. Thompson, 45, a former longshoreman, hospital orderly, drug clerk, waiter and pantryman, who last week got his M.A. in zoology-the first Negro ever to get a degree from the University of Texas...