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Canadian law requires an employer to rehire a World War II veteran "under conditions not less favorable" than those he enjoyed before entering the service-or pay a penalty. To Marathon Paper Mills of Canada, Ltd., this seemed like expensive nonsense in the case of Colonel Alfred Louis Johnson. The case became the first court test involving a senior executive, under the Reinstatement...
...affable Al Johnson, now 47, was running the General Timber Co., Ltd. when Marathon took it over in 1938, retained him as general manager of its pulpwood operations near Port Arthur. His contract called for an annual salary of $7,500 plus a production bonus...
...born Mr. Johnson, a West Point graduate, left Marathon to rejoin the U.S. Army, participated in Allied strategic planning at Cairo, Yalta and Quebec, got the Legion of Merit for helping get supplies across the Hump to China. Last fall Colonel Johnson asked Marathon to give him back...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...