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...went from meeting to meeting, his pitch was low-keyed, without personal resentment against Harry Truman. "My fight," he said, "is against the Republicans, not against any Democrat." Old friends rallied around him. Plowing through the crushing crowds with Stevenson was an especially devoted and notedly effective helper: Eleanor Roosevelt, 71, wearing an absurd little hat and carrying herself with gentle dignity. She spoke repeatedly of her concern for a better world, a better America, and a Democratic Party in which the old, e.g., herself and Harry Truman, must make way for the young, i.e., Adlai Stevenson. "My husband," said...
...Actually, the business end of a "plumber's helper...
...after two teen-age girls had signed their names to a letter lamenting the dearth of summer jobs, one of the girls became more irritated than ever. She complained that after her letter appeared, a telephone caller had offered her a $65-a-week job as all-around office helper. One of the job requirements: modeling in the nude...
...enterprise when he left Holy Cross in 1918 and got his first job as a clerk in the Jones & Laughlin polishing mill. The work paid 22? an hour; he soon found another job where the hourly rate was 36?. When an opportunity arose to become a machinist's helper at the mill, he took it. Then in 1922 he returned to white-collar work as typist-switchboard operator at $80 a month for Wheeling Steel Products Co. Three nights a week, for three hours a night, he went to Duquesne University to study accounting...
...DeTar calls in nearby hospital specialists for 10 to 15% of his cases, but he relies most of all on the G.P.'s traditional helper, a detailed medical history of each patient. Says he: "I know if the person ever had a reaction to penicillin. I know when John Jones had a kidney stone. It's a tremendous advantage over the doctor who sees his patient for the first time in a hospital...