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...Lemkull was playfully roughed up (see cut). Red flags were hung all over the main street and road blocks established. One oldster complained bitterly about standing in line for a permit to buy each glass of beer. "That's the severity of it, Al," explained the ration clerk...
Like most A. & P. executives, he had come up through the ranks. The son of a longtime A. & P. employee, Burger was born at Kingston, N.Y., and joined A. & P. at the age of 22 as a part-time clerk. He became secretary in 1925, lives in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y. Like other top A. & P. executives, he was picked by the Hartford brothers, John, 77, and George, 86, who still run the giant chain, also conform to the stern tradition of anonymity. John has six lines in Who's Who in America, George has three...
...average registered nurse-working exhausting hours every day and getting $200 a month if she is very lucky-if she is part of the "Fine Time for All" you so glibly mention. Ask the bookkeeper, the stenographer the sales clerk, the minister, the teacher if they are wonderfully happy and full of financial pudding. Ask any one of the millions of white-collar workers of the lower income brackets, and ask any of the people living on incomes and pensions and insurance annuities if everything is just rosy...
Entrepreneur. In Bloomington, Ind., the Monroe County clerk got a letter from one Walter Sadlick, an ex-serviceman, who explained that he had married to get a bigger student's allotment under the G.I. bill, but that now, as his eligibility for benefits was running out, "we would naturally like to abolish the marriage...
When Ronnie came to the Philippines in 1949 as a U.S. Army private, he expected to find life there exciting. He was bored by his duties as a clerk with the 29th Topographical Engineer Battalion at the U.S. Army base in Cavite. Last October Ronnie Dorsey and Benjamin Advincula, a Spanish-Filipino employee of the U.S. Navy, lit out for the local headquarters of the rebel Huks...