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...Edmund F. Martin, 60, who became president three years ago, then advanced to vice chairman last August as Stewart S. Cort, 52, replaced him. Martin, who now earns $255,663 a year, joined Bethlehem in 1922 as a "looper," or management trainee, worked up from repairman's helper to chief of steelmaking operations...
Hard by the Tees. This raffish end product of Britain's welfare state was born in the mind of a onetime butcher's helper who strayed into the graphic arts quite by chance. Britain's largest daily, the London Daily Mirror (circ. 4,631,000), wanted to woo Northern English readers with a new comic strip set in that grimy part of the island, and Freelance Artist Reginald Smythe just happened to be available for the job. Smythe had grown up in the north of England, in an industrial blight called Hartlepool, hard by the River Tees...
Resounding Success. Hyman Goldberg's new role as housewife's helper is no more improbable than any other milestone in his journalistic career. At 16, Goldberg was covering the police beat for three Manhattan papers and a news service to boot. He was still 16 when he lost one of his papers, the old New York Sun, for excessive drinking on the job. Goldberg blames the calamity on the more experienced police reporters working the lobster shift. When he arrived at police headquarters, they were usually imbibing the last of the night's gin and grapefruit juice...
...reviving the economy, and last week, on the eve of the presidential vote, he announced a timely boost from the Soviet Union-a $100 million loan to Algeria. Although disbursement details had yet to be worked out on paper, Russia thus becomes Ben Bella's second most important helper after France, which has promised up to $700 million...
That Certain Feeling. As for Morgenthau's "vendetta," it all went back a dozen years or so, Cohn explained, when he was investigating charges of Communist spy infiltration into the Treasury Department. In the 1940s, Cohn recalled, Communist Helper Harry Dexter White was working in the Treasury, and Robert Morgenthau's father Henry was Treasury Secretary. "I have no personal malice toward Morgenthau senior," added Cohn charitably, "but Morgenthau junior has harbored a feeling about this...