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...early years in Dayton were more often spent seeking jobs than being sought after. Of Yankee and German Swiss stock, the son of a high-school manual training teacher, Stanton started earning money as a newsboy. After school he worked at the Metropolitan men's clothing store where he progressed from stock boy to window trimmer and showcard artist. His former boss, Richard Meyer, recalls that Stanton was wise beyond his years: "We used to get into arguments about religion and sex -on a very serious plane. Most fellows his age didn't worry about those things...
...Editor in Charge of Finding Prognosticators was idly thumbing through his witchcraft manual last night when he heard a sudden grinding of gears behind him. He looked up; there steed a large adding machine with legs...
Basic dormitory regulations--as set down in a little purple manual referred to as the "joke book"--state that the Holy Cross upperclassman must be in for the night by 7:30 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays, and 11 p.m. on Sundays. For freshmen these times are moved up approximately an hour. A monitoring system of corridor prefects checks up on obedience to these rules with more or less conscientiousness...
...Menu. Hecht's family of magazines now includes: School and College Management, a monthly free to 32,000 U.S. educators (it pays for itself in advertising); Baby Care Manual (circ. 360,000), a quarterly distributed free to hospitals to give to new mothers; Your New Baby (circ. 400,000), another quarterly bought by diaper services and department stores for distribution to new mothers; Senior Prom (circ. 600,000), a 25? monthly for teen-age girls; and Varsity (circ. 250,000), a 25? bimonthly for high-school and college boys...
...taught to look out for themselves. The state commission had made a start in that direction by issuing a booklet: You and the Atomic Bomb, What To Do in Case of an Atomic Attack, for free and wide dissemination. Like the advice to Junior, it was a manual for survival. But the necessity went beyond that...