Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism schools have mostly gone out of style with U.S. editors who no longer seem to fly into spike-throwing rages at the notion that the craft of journalism can be taught in any school except the school of pavement-pounding, doorbell-ringing experience. Most papers now prefer to hire the J-school graduate because he does have some practical experience, however limited, grafted on to a liberal arts education, however minimal. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Managing Editor Ed Stone expresses the prevailing attitude: "We hire the best man, whether he's had journalism training...
Reason for the switchover: without TV, the college would have to hire more new teachers, instead hopes to save $60,000 in salaries by June. And with TV, Compton expects to handle a 100% enrollment increase in the next decade with a boost of only about 30% in its 90-member staff. Said one official: "We figure that saving the costs of 60 bodies is well worth it." Compton plans to build a TV wing, with six windowless, air-conditioned classrooms...
...addition to the Committee, there was a two-man board of tutors; enrollment began to build up in the Twenties and by 1929 there were six tutors and 60 to 70 students. The Depression brought about severe budget limitations, and History and Lit was unable to hire additional tutors. As a result, concentration in the field, hitherto unrestricted, was limited to 50 Harvard and 15 Radcliffe students...
...film job was tempting. "So many African pictures are being made these days that this film company wanted to hire a full-time native artist. I was young and romantic and I could see myself with beret and cigar, you know...
Such standards, critics charge, may turn the party business into a serious threat to the theater. Charities generally book a play because it has name actors, and producers are apt to hire stars for insurance, whether they fit the role or not. For partygoers, the play is far from the thing. They are apt to turn up high from preparty banquets; men do business in the aisles, wives gossip from row to row. Mary Martin once complained: "Their attitude is: 'I've paid my 35 bucks, now show...