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...retraining. But how retrainable are the mass of these unskilled and semiskilled unemployed? Two-thirds of them have less than a high school education. Are they interested in retraining? But most important, is there a job waiting for them when they have been retrained?" The new California Smith-Collier Act retraining program drew only 100 applicants in six months...
...before his 18th birthday, became one of the youngest men ever to skipper a U.S. Navy ship, taking over a submarine chaser. Returning to San Francisco in 1946, Salinger became within five years, at 26, night city editor of the Chronicle. By the time he quit to go to Collier's in 1955, he had made a name for himself by stories exposing prison conditions and breaking up a municipal bond racket, and by helping to solve a murder. On the side, he worked for California Democratic Politicians Pat Brown and Richard P. Graves, served as Adlai Stevenson...
Innovation Through Jack. Salinger's career at Collier's was short and bitter sweet: he was preparing an expose of West Coast Teamsters. Union operations when the magazine folded in 1956. Bobby Kennedy, counsel to the U.S. Senate's special subcommittee investigating labor rackets, heard of Salinger's work, and he was hired by the committee as a special investigator. There he met Jack Kennedy...
Died. Kyle S. Crichton, 64, writer and editor who once turned out social significance with his left hand (as an editor of the Communist New Masses under the name Robert Forsythe) and social insignificance (as an editor of Collier's under his own name) with his other hand; of a heart attack; in New York. A sponsor of literary pink teas during the '30s, Crichton's political sympathies were shattered by the Stalin-Hitler pact. Turning from somber Karl Marxism to zany Marx Brotherism, he biographed Groucho et al, along with other nonpoliticos such...
...year-nearly $200 million more than the sales of all other kinds of books put together. Last week's mergers were but the latest in a series this year: Prentice-Hall, the biggest college text publisher, acquired Iroquois Publishing, which puts out elementary and high school books. Crowell-Collier won control of the Macmillan Co. to create a $60 million publishing complex. Henry Holt, Rinehart and John C. Winston joined forces to create the leading science and language text publishing house, raising sales to $31 million. The aim of all is to get ready for the market looming...