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...posted to St. Louis as a branch sales manager, and Tom and his sister were uprooted once again. Gone were the sunlit spacious backyards of Mississippi, replaced by rows of brick flats the color of "dried blood and mustard." The children sang in the Episcopal choir, but were made to feel like social untouchables. At home, the parents often "quarreled horribly,'' and C.C. grew more and more dissatisfied with his son. He felt the boy was "sissified," wanted him to play baseball, took a bitter delight in calling him "Miss Nancy...
...page McDonald's Manual, which specifies every operation in detail, e.g., hamburgers must be locally purchased "commercial" grade chuck (fat content 17% to 20%), formed into 1.6-oz. patties 3⅝ in. in diameter. Each is to be garnished with ¼ oz. onions, one teaspoon of mustard, one tablespoon of catsup and a pickle 1 in. in diameter. A third of the manual is devoted to Kroc's fetish: cleanliness. So strict is he about it that he posted a sign by the coffee machine in the home office threatening that "anyone who throws sugar wrappers or empty...
...command $20,000 a year and up, the recruiting firms opened up a vital new talent pool to expanding U.S. corporations. Says the vice president of one rapidly diversifying company that depends on recruiters: "We don't have time to train enough men. We need the mustard cutters...
Colors show a reaction against last year's brilliance. Pink and purple, though still blindingly around, are moving aside for brown mixed with black and other softer combinations. A fashion show put together by the buying house Felix Lilienthal & Co., highlights such colors as cognac, pumpkin, mustard and apricot. Mollie Parnis and Hannah Troy are two of many showing soft brown, smoky green, and blue (robin's egg, peacock) for daytime. Arthur Jablow's collection by David Kidd includes suits in browns from palest beige through butterscotch to ebony, while Jane Derby combines navy and green. Though...
...Mustard Field. Founded by Methodists, U.S.C, started off with high goals one sweltering day in 1880 when 1,000 people, a tenth of the population of Los Angeles at the time, buggied out to dedicate the "university"-a small frame building in a wild mustard field. But the promise was elusive; even in 1927, U.S.C.'s endowment income was only $21,000. Still, U.S.C. managed to train most of its area's doctors, lawyers and teachers until the late 1940s, when mushrooming U.C.L.A. overtook...