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Standing Offer. George Higgins never got to college himself; he only managed to squeak through high school by working after class as a janitor and a soda jerk. After that he struck out for Detroit, became a star salesman for General Motors, finally earned enough money to buy a Ferndale agency of his own. Then, one day, a teacher from Lincoln High School happened to tell him about a "mighty deserving poor boy" who wanted to go to college. That night George Higgins decided that the boy should go, and that he should take the responsibility of paying the college...
Bottled Up. In Greenville, S.C., when the drunks in the city jail never seemed to sober up, police kept a close watch, nabbed Janitor Jesse McKamey peddling whisky through the bars...
Tobin banged the Lampoon's side door with both fists, and the startled face of the janitor appeared. The Young Democrat pushed his way in and managed to retrieve the errant Governor. With red faces, the Currey faction trooped along behind the Governor, while Curey himself unctuously told Dever he "was happy he could come." The Governor smiled slyly. Tobin glanced furtively around as he led the Governor to the car, evidently expecting another attack...
...father's favorite. When Alben had outgrown the little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here"), won high grades and a medal for oratory...
...Annoyed by a university decision to abolish janitor service after this year, 500 Princeton students poured out of their rooms one night last week, set off a barrage of firecrackers, chanted their way into town ("We Want Janitors!"), finally staged a mass sit-down strike in front of Nassau Hall. It was a mighty mutiny, the university admitted, but not mighty enough: Old Nassau's dormitory janitors were gone for good...