Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dudley Darling, in TIME'S personnel department, wrote to discourage Hood from the expense of making a trip to New York, because of the uncertainty of getting a job when he arrived. But Hood wasn't discouraged for long. He got his old summertime job at a resort hotel (as second chef in the restaurant, and as operator of his own baggage-hauling business on the side), and in August he wrote us again, asking for an employment interview...
...Hood got his visa and came back to New York early in January 1949, a few days early for his next appointment. He busied himself making up a list of "the right people to see" about jobs at various newspapers, radio stations, etc., including their phone numbers, addresses and office room numbers, just in case. As it turned out, he never had to use the list. Impressed by his determination and his businesslike manner, Darling hired him as a mail-room messenger. Hood's first assignment was as a courier, bringing pictures of Harry Truman's inauguration from...
Before long, Hood was promoted from messenger to mail sorter. Says Bob Evans. TIME'S mailroom supervisor: "It was soon obvious that Alex could outsort anybody in the place. Some 2,000 names have to be memorized for this job. I have never seen anybody who knew so many domestic and foreign names and addresses, or who was able to learn them so quickly...
...following June, Hood enrolled at Fordham University, attending classes at night. Last March, after three yeas in the mailroom, he joined TIME's business training program. But he took a part-time in the mailroom, as well, to help with the early morning sorting from 7 to 9 a.m. (and to earn some extra money for college expenses...
...training program has taken Hood into jobs in various parts of the company - production, research, travel bureau, and business offices of different TIME Inc. publications. In these jobs, he worked at a variety of desks and in temporarily vacant offices. Once, when he was using the office of former FORTUNE Publisher C. D. Jackson, who was away at the time, an insurance salesman came to deliver a policy he had sold Hood. Ushered into the office by a secretary, the salesman looked at Hood with a mixture of perplexity and admiration. Said Hood: "I could just see what was going...