Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train to Westport (so goes the story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes...
Making a Profit. Physically, both papers resemble U.S. newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
...advisory board. In the tradition that the trustee shares in the rewards he brings to others, they are among the best-paid men in U.S. industry. Vice Chairman Kenneth Isaacs, Robinson's righthand man and the president of the Growth Stock Fund, made $360,989 last year. The junior trustee made more than...
...Wanted: Junior Flips. Not working has always been a reasonable dodge of bohemians, but Lipton has elevated the beatnik's indolence to the dedication of a mendicant order. "Only poverty is holy," he quotes approvingly. "Moneytheism" is the tail-finned dragon that the tattered saints are fighting. All such beatnik absurdities would not matter if their writings and paintings had some value. But most of the art that Lipton's shaggy sufferers turn out is not better, he admits, than the weekend seascape by the vice president of a spark-plug firm...
...Bevingtons met each other at rehearsals for the Lowell House Opera. "I was playing viola and my future wife was playing second fiddle," Bevington reminisced. They were married after Mrs. Bevington's junior year...