Word: collar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine...
...amount a man makes on his regular job does not necessarily determine whether he moonlights. It is the amount he wants to spend. Said a Chicago white-collar worker who drives a cab as a second job: "If you want to have a family and kids and a car and a house and TV, either your wife works or you work double." The California Teachers Association studied moonlighting among 17,000 male teachers under 30, found that 10,000 held other jobs, checking in supermarkets, clerking in clothing stores, selling insurance, etc. Among the married, the proportion ranged...
...which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music, and are pleasantly decorated (some in rosewood paneling, one with a pigskin leather floor). The kitchen is one of the world's largest all-electric cookeries, has a refrigerated room...
...Chrysler has kielbasa for workers of Polish descent. Pittsburgh's H. J. Heinz Co. has imported Swiss, German and Austrian chefs, encourages recipes from employees. Average check at Heinz: 33? for production-line workers (who often bring part of their lunch from home), 53? for executives and white-collar workers...
...unskilled has discouraged workers from learning a trade, especially since apprentice wages are far less than unskilled pay. The skilled worker's pay advantage over the unskilled dropped from 80% in 1932 to about 40% in 1957. During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor for the Los Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those...