Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners to simple Bible stories...
...Votes. It had taken quite a while for the U.S. to make out what Bob Hutchins was really driving at. One of the explanations for that lay in Hutchins himself and in the way he went about his job at Chicago. "I have no idea of revolutionizing it overnight," he announced at the beginning; but he soon seemed to be doing just that. "Why are you in such a hurry?" a professor once asked him. Replied Hutchins: "No successful president ever did anything to a school after his first five years...
...scientists who worked for the Government in World War II, summarizes the feelings of the layman toward the newest weapons in the world's arsenals. In a book to be published next week-Modern Arms and Free Men (Simon & Schuster; $3.50)- he devotes himself to the job of illuminating some of the dim corners of science's weapon shop...
...sides) came seven which are seldom heard, performed with more spunk than spirit by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Sternberg. Most interesting of the seven: Haydn's First, composed when he was 27, and his Thirteenth ("Jupiter"), which seems to reflect his happiness with his new job as musicmaker at the Esterhazys, a job he held for 30 years. Also of particular interest: No. 48 ("Maria Theresa"), which heralds the arrival, in the distance, of the mature symphonist. Of his later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony...
...Cornell-trained ('13) chemical engineer, John got his first good job at 25, running a brass mill to make shell-casings during World War I. In 1931, when New Haven's Winchester Repeating Arms Co. went into receivership, John spotted a chance to supplement the Olin cartridge line by buying one of the world's biggest sporting-firearm plants for $8,000.000. Since he likes to hunt, John has since neatly combined business with pleasure. He holds some 20 basic cartridge patents (e.g., Western Cartridge's "Super X" long-range load for small arms...