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...launching the Filene's Cooperative Association: clerks and salesgirls were elected to the store's board of directors, were sole arbiters of the store hours and holidays. The employee-directors did not work out. But other benefits took firm hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every addition to his skill, means steadily better wages...
...filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent she had been in amassing her wealth...
Cocker Caravan. Calling her Margaret Lydia McGlashan Burton instead of Janet Gray, the FBI arrested her, following charges that she had embezzled some $100,000 in two years from the cashbox of the Decatur Clinic. They also arrested Westminster's Candy, who turned out to be not Margaret's niece but her daughter, Sheila Joy Burton...
Margaret's exposure had started last month, when her doctor employers hired a new business manager to handle the finances of their growing clinic. Not that the doctors had any complaints (routine audits by a big Atlanta firm showed nothing amiss), but they needed a manager with more experience. When the new manager, John C. Walsh, arrived in Atlanta from New Orleans, Margaret graciously hosted a welcoming party. But on his third day at work Accountant Walsh happened to check through the bank deposits. "It suddenly struck me," he reported, "that there were no deposits of currency," even though...
...opinion I was 'subnormal.' He thought it would be the humane action to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic where I had my IQ inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and-guess what?-came home a genius, so proclaimed by science. My former teachers refused to believe it; as for me, I was exceedingly pleased, and went around staring at myself in mirrors and sucking in my cheeks...