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First, let's not do another cover on the McCarthy man. The last one looked like Rocky Marciano, or something. Liked the idea of roasting the old boy, but maybe we let him off too easy. Take the piece about the janitor and Senator Mac Venner. That could have been a pretty funny situation, but somehow it turned into a Ray Bradbury science fiction with everything from flying saucers to atomic cocktails. I think we might have missed an opportunity to really blast those damn investigations...
...paintings were markedly more abstract than his earlier work. There was an architectural quality about most of them, expressed in long, vertical-lined backgrounds that gave a skyscraper dimension to his compositions. In Janitor, one of the show's best items, Zerbe set an old man with vertically furrowed face and sharply structural features against a background of high buildings. The man's face seems to be made of the same rough masonry as the building; Zerbe mixes mica, sand or flint with his plastic to give a rougher surface. Three Doors is a semi-abstraction in quiet...
Interim Note. In Anchorage, Alaska, the Times carried this classified ad: "YOUNG MAN . . . sober at present . . . not proud, will even take the janitor's job. Sixteen years schooling, same room, same class, married the teacher...
...list remains a roster of tragedy: a onetime embassy charge d'affaires who now works as a clerk in a garment district storehouse, a political scientist whose only U.S. job has been as a cashier in a tenth-rate restaurant, a banker who is now a janitor, and two former ambassadors, one of whom scrapes along as an assistant librarian. The other: "unemployed...
...small-town minister, McClellan worked his way through Occidental College as a cantaloupe inspector and packer, cook and college janitor, was made head janitor when he devised a way to save the college 10% on cleaning expenses. After graduation he went to work for a creamery, and a year later was made sales manager. In 1927, McClellan decided to go into business for himself; for $10,000 he bought a rundown Los Angeles paint company. His company, which now employs 150, has increased sales in all but two of the years since, this year will gross about...