Word: helper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barber's Boy. Jimmy was born Feb. 10, 1893, on Manhattan's swarming Lower East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely...
...people in U.S. radio have made such a good thing out of insulting advertisers on such a scale as a onetime bookkeeper and dance-hall manager named Joe Gentile, 34, and his childhood pal Ralph Binge, 38, onetime plumber's helper, amateur boxer, and door-to-door salesman. The eleven-year-old program has 40-odd sponsors who paid some $250,000 last year for the privilege of hearing their products and services derided. There is also a waiting list of hopeful sponsors. But last week Gentile & Binge refused to take on any more. They thought that three...
...College dining halls and kitchens, the men have turned over to the other gender jobs of dishwashers, bus boys, salad men, storeroom men, vegetable men, cooks, chef's helper's, bakers, steam table men, and counter...
...Bill Jack quit grammar school to learn the die-cutting trade, later took turns as a magician's helper, a baseball catcher, a prize fighter. Then he became business agent for Local 83, International Association of Machinists, proved his organizing knack by boosting membership from 61 to 3,600 in four years. But he liked manufacturing better than union-eering, quickly bought, developed and resold half a dozen small companies. Most successful-outside of J. & H.-was Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp., which Jack swapped for 34,666 shares of Borg-Warner Corp., just before he organized...
...last the truth came out. The kitchen helper seeking the powdered milk had dim-wittedly come back from the wrong storeroom with seven pounds of sodium fluoride roach powder, with which hurried, overworked Cook McKillop had scrambled the eggs. At week's end McKillop and his boss, Mary O'Hare, were booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter...