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Matter of Direction. Taken together, the two volumes show a purpose as relentless as a ledger's-the ledger of a society in the red. Taken singly, the books show little of their social arithmetic. It is as though they had been kept by a brilliant clerk who, in the first volume, scribbled a love story over his accounts, and in the second, glimpsing the significance of the figures he was adding, covered the pages with invective. The Telegraph is one of the most savagely witty books ever written...
Before going to his store in Mexico City one morning last week, a bookseller put in a precautionary phone call to his head clerk. Plainclothes cops, the loyal employee reported, had been riffling through the store's ample stock of pornographic novels and postcards, and were awaiting the owner's arrival. The owner, however, hastened to a district judge and got a magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
Newhouse broke into journalism in 1912 while he was a $2-a-week clerk for the receiver for New Jersey's bankrupt Bayonne Times. Because the receiver was not interested in the job, Newhouse was made publisher of the paper at 18. Within a year, he pulled the Times out of the red. After that, Newhouse bought other floundering papers in the New York area, including the Staten Island Advance, the Long Island Press and Star-Journal, and the Newark Star-Ledger. Newhouse hired better staffs, cut costs, built up a combined circulation...
After getting along for 92 years with nothing but male veeps, R. H. Macy & Co. last week appointed its first woman vice president. She is Brooklyn-born Beatrice Rosenberg, 52, who joined Macy's as a hat clerk 32 years ago, climbed steadily up to department manager, a merchandise counselor (millinery and footwear) and merchandise administrator. Vice President Rosenberg (married to Harry Kirshbaum, an architect) is now in charge of the millinery and shoe sales staffs, some 400 people. Her motto:"Beat last year's figures...