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Thus the manager is more than a glorified janitor. Any man who has managed a Harvard team will proclaim the advantages of his job. More than any other single group, the managers are in constant contact with coaches and athletic directors here and at other schools. They are the direct liason between the team and the Department of Athletics, for it is the manager who has contacts with both the players and administration. Managers feel they have a grave responsibility for team spirit. Sloppy arrangements of a trip may wreck the spirit of a team. Above all, managing...
...four-acre shopping center, barber and beauty shops. Rental apartments start at $85 a month (a few de luxe penthouse apartments will rent for up to $235), while a three-bedroom cooperative will sell for $23,850, with $5,240 down, $163 a month for principal, interest, insurance, taxes, janitor service and heat. Of this $163 payment $94.54 is taxdeductible...
Bill never saved the money he earned, and when a new generation cramped his country style, he was broke all the time. In 1950 he became a janitor at Iowa State College for $1.10 an hour. He made a comeback on the European jazz circuit, but last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang...
President to Janitor. Sparking the move toward smaller but more numerous prizes is a handful of incentive firms that have made big business out of shooting adrenalin into salesmen. The biggest is Dayton's E. F. MacDonald Co., which last year had a hand in triggering the sale of $1 billion worth of merchandise. MacDonald urges firms to award varied prizes, usually merchandise on a point scale, thus give every salesman some incentive to better his work. Incentive firms are also responsible for the newest gimmick in incentive selling: getting the entire company, from the president to the janitor...
Amplified Needle. In Los Angeles, cops booked Frederick Brannan for stealing phonograph records from the record-pressing firm where he worked as a janitor, found he had written himself a reminder, "Keep Hustling," on the title page of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...