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...phone call to the Center made earlier in the evening had been greeted by the announcement that a meeting definitely would take place. Nevertheless the janitor of the building, the sign on the door, and Fr. Feeney all maintained the contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fr. Feeney Cancels Lecture, Turns Fifty Students Away | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

Rent in all but three dormitories will be hiked ten percent, and janitor service will be curtailed in the low rate buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $40 Boost in Fees Made at Princeton | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Salesmen & Janitors? | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Cicero's Wind. A year and a half after they were married, Hubert set out to fulfill the dream. Back at the University of Minnesota, Muriel got a job as a typist, Hubert got a part-time drugstore job, worked as a janitor to help pay their rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Education of a Senator | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...office, piled high with books and papers, is more cluttered than William Allen White's used to be at another famed Gazette, in Emporia. Once a reporter asked for a typewriter he had seen buried in the office, and Heiskell crustily denied that it was there. A janitor dug in and found not one machine but six. "If they'd dug a little deeper," cracked a newsman, "they'd probably have found a dead reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arkansas Teetotaler | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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