Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gives me great pleasure to tell you that your application to Quincy House has been enthusiatically accepted. The success of this enterprise next year--and no doubt the next ten years--will depend upon the creative impact of this group of gifted upperclassmen who have ventured in the dark to throw light on a possibility. I welcome you as a member of a distinguished company .... Sincerely yours, John M. Bullitt Master Quincy House...
...practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism training or not. But I think most papers have come to depend on journalism schools to recruit their help." Even such a salty old-schooler as the Detroit Times's City Editor Jim Trainor concedes: "Journalism school won't hurt a good smart...
Mild Pessimism. Final solution of the Railway Express problem may well depend on the outcome of the year-old proposed merger between the Central and the Pennsy, the nation's two largest railroads. (Together they account for nearly 15% of the railroad business; consolidation would bring them estimated savings of $200 million a year.) The Pennsy's operations and equipment studies are completed. Last week the financial vice president, David C. Bevan, said that financial studies for the merger are in their final stages and are expected to be presented to the Pennsy's board...
...Venezuela, he noted, are each attempting to restore constitutional government after a long period of dictatorship. But Argentine President Frondizi has had to declare a state of siege to counter the threat of an oil strike led by the Communists and Peronistas, while the future of Venezuelan democracy may depend on the military's willingness to step down in favor of a man whom they had previously deposed and persecuted...
...Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite the every-other-day bombardment. Casualties to date: one carrier boy slightly injured by shrapnel, one decommissioned jeep...