Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Although his collected works fill 20 volumes, Harte (1836-1902) is best remembered today for a couple of short stories and one humorous poem. Biographer O'Connor gives Harte his due both as a literary figure and as a silken-mustached rascal, who snubbed his friends and was once feelingly described by Mark Twain as a coward, a liar, a swindler, a born loafer and an s.o.b...
...added that Harvard always has more openings than it can fill for women who want jobs as secretaries, laboratory technicians, and library assistants. However, before a United States employer can give a job to an allen, he must swear before a notary that he cannot find a U.S. citizen to fill the post...
Harvard's secretaries come from all kinds of backgrounds and fill all sorts of jobs. Judith Hill, of the Personnel office, who is responsible for hiring most secretaries, has divided them into four general categories. According to Miss Hill, there is the young single girl, the graduate student's wife ("we have a lot of them," says Miss Hill), the woman whose children have just gone to school and has little house-work to do, and the career secretary, a vanishing breed...
...every professor, department, and House seems to have its favorite kind of secretary. The four kinds of secretary that Miss Hill outlined fill all kinds of jobs in the University. None of them, not even mainstays like Mrs. Robinson, really runs the University, but the University not run without them. Only they can chart Harvard's course on its sea of paper work. So if the MBTA strike ever does come off, give a lift to that secretary.MRS. SALLY RUSHER, Leverett House...
...table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...