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Before long, Hood was promoted from messenger to mail sorter. Says Bob Evans. TIME'S mailroom supervisor: "It was soon obvious that Alex could outsort anybody in the place. Some 2,000 names have to be memorized for this job. I have never seen anybody who knew so many domestic and foreign names and addresses, or who was able to learn them so quickly...
...following June, Hood enrolled at Fordham University, attending classes at night. Last March, after three yeas in the mailroom, he joined TIME's business training program. But he took a part-time in the mailroom, as well, to help with the early morning sorting from 7 to 9 a.m. (and to earn some extra money for college expenses...
...suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing on the lawn, than it is to start a new magazine when starving in an attic in the Village or be bursting with potential in the mailroom at $27.50 a week...
...Down . . ." Stassen's national headquarters, which occupies the whole tenth floor of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Building, hums like a fraternity in rush week. Telephone calls pour in at the rate of 1,000 a day. In a huge mailroom, some 60 volunteers run clacking mimeograph machines, stuff envelopes, mail out an average of 300,000 letters a day. The volunteers, who work in shifts, are drawn from a pool of 700 society women, debutantes, office girls who come in after hours...
...mailroom clerks stiffened their sinews to grapple with the hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts-from fruitcake and ship models to luggage and buck deer-that stack up every year, the week before Christmas. Secret Service men could infinitesimally relax: Christmastime is a slow season for cranks & crackpots...