Word: hire
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...headstrong rule of his own roost, Gleason had a mixed reputation around CBS: "There is only one way to do things." said the voices in the washroom, "the Gleason way." He refused to rehearse, treated scriptwriters with such scorn that one producer claims "we had to hire a liaison man between Gleason and his scriptwriters." Nonetheless, the company thought enough of his talents to agree to pay him $100,000 a year every year from 1957 through 1972. Gleason does not have to work for the money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working...
Experts & Superexperts. At Marie's second trial, which opened in Bordeaux in 1954, three informers who had been placed by police in Marie's cell claimed that she had planned to hire some Marseille gangsters to rub out her gossipy neighbors-but again the uncertainties of toxicology came to her aid. The experts could not agree, and one became so flustered that he had a tantrum on the witness stand, sat down, crossed his legs, folded his arms, and refused to speak. Thoroughly bewildered, the judge called for a panel of "superexperts," released Marie Besnard on bail, ordered...
Golf is an elevating pursuit, and promoting a new golf course is almost as elevating. Last week in Miami, where a new $10 million country club is abuilding. Promoter Alfred L. Kaskel announced that he would hire girl caddies to help the golfers on their rounds. Kaskel, no doubt inspired by bright-eyed flacks, said that he got the idea from a French golf club in Nice where female caddies are employed. It is there, he noted, that the President's father. Joseph P. Kennedy, sometimes is accompanied by a pretty caddette named Mrs. Franchise Pellegrino Auterio...
With all tuition income earmarked for faculty pay, Kalamazoo can use its increased income to hire better teachers at bigger salaries. The goal in two years: $17,500 maximum, compared with $13,000 now. This year Kalamazoo has a dozen new teachers, boosting its faculty to 54, and since the students now also take only three courses per quarter, the faculty can teach harder. "If you coast now," says one harried junior, "you're lost...
...Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) has failed to prove its charge that Trailways Bus Company of New England "refuses to hire Negroes in responsible jobs," according to a four-age report issued Tuesday by the Harvard Young Democrats...