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Samuel Kauffmann, 54, was the head janitor on the sixth floor, who came to the paper when Kauffmann did, 31 years ago. Alongside Editor McKelway, 57, sat a Negro press helper who got a job on the Star in 1920, when McKelway came to work for the paper. For the occasion, the Old Lady showed she could still kick up her skirts. To the "Live a little" tune, the Star promotion manager good-naturedly needled the staff: "You've got to lie a little, boast a little/You've gotto make like the [Washington] Post a little...
...service in Franklin County, Idaho in 1929-30, economist and marketing specialist for the university's extension service in 1930-38, executive secretary of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives in Washington in 1939-44. As the council's chief operating officer, he was the agent and helper of thousands of farmers in 4,600 cooperatives (group buying and selling associations) which did an annual business of $1.3 billion. He started active church work in 1921 when he spent two years as a missionary in Europe. He was president of the Boise, Idaho stake (division) of the church...
...announced, Ezra Benson said: "While I had never met General Eisenhower until today, I have great confidence in his ability and his power of leadership. Therefore, obedient to the call and consistent with the principles which have guided my life, I shall do my best, God being my helper...
...Committee on Rules and Tenure has limited Public Speaking to one full-time instructor--Associate Professor Frederick Packard. Packard has three-fifths more teaching time to portion among assistants, but he can offer prospective aides neither advancement nor security of tenure. As a result, Packard has hardly trained a helper before the man leaves for a better job in some other college that takes speaking seriously...
...children. At the age of seven he delivered 100 papers a day. He kept up his education long enough to play football as a sophomore in high school, then quit to begin a scrabble of hard odd jobs-dishwasher, ditchdigger, factory candy-mixer, snow-remover, beer-deliverer's helper. He spent three years in the Army (partly ferrying supplies from England to Normandy), and returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return he did some amateur boxing for fun-and broke his thumb. That small misfortune made him. "It cost...