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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Find Out. In 1925, planning to return for work at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, McElroy took a $100-a-month summer job with Procter & Gamble. Says he: "I was a mail boy. That's where they tell you to open and read everybody's mail. It's one way of finding out what's going on." Ambitious, hard-driving Neil McElroy found out enough to realize that Procter & Gamble, with its incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed...
...POLE!" shrieked a headline in London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138-510), and below it, in the hoary old tradition of British I-witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...
...Back in Fleet Street, Barber's "triumphant arrival" at the Pole in a U.S. Navy plane won a game salute from the Daily Mirror (circ. 4,658,793). But Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4.024,800), the Mail's archrival in the derring-do dateline, was as elaborately unimpressed as its big type could say. On the day of his triumph, without mentioning Barber, the paper ran a cut of the thickly populated U.S. polar base, "The 'Town at the South Pole," and noted pointedly that "the polar 'bus run' flight has become...
...Last Word. Crowed a Mail editorial over its icy ace: "He is among the great reporters of the world." The Express could not stand this, last week struck back with a new contest. YOUR TRIP TO THE SOUTH POLE, ran a Page One headline (then a subhead FOR OF COURSE EVERYBODY'S DOING IT). Said the story: "The winner wouldn't be alone when he got there. These days politicians-even entertainers!-are flying in 'on the milk run' almost every day. WHY DON'T YOU GO TOO!" Next day the Express announced the details...
...Dean's office announced yesterday that present juniors will receive questionnaires by mail today asking whether, and under what circumstances, they would prefer to live in private lodgings...