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After 16 years of profit-sharing, W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co.'s 1,766 workers were used to bonuses. But last week, in the main plant at Fort Madison, Iowa, a notice went up that set men & women dancing among the machines. For the latest quarter, their bonus would total 50% of their pay-by far the biggest in Sheaffer's history, and more than double the previous quarter...
Next day, brawny (6 ft., 195 lbs.) Craig Royer Sheaffer, 52-year-old president of the biggest U.S. pen company, gave stockholders something else to celebrate: the company declared an extra dividend of $1.15 a share on top of its regular quarterly payment of 10?. Although the company's twelve-month sales had sagged 10% from $22 million in the previous year, Penman Sheaffer had been able to boost his previous $2.4 million profit...
...Athens these days it is easy for a man to achieve prominence. If he has a scratchy pen, a crumpled piece of lined paper, and a coffeehouse table to lean on, he has only to write out a declaration, cross the palm tree courtyard, dash up the steps of the Areios Pagos (Supreme Court Building) and hand his paper across the attorney's desk. Presto! he has created a new political party. When he gets back to the coffeehouse, he will be no longer plain Dimitrios but, instead, "Mr. President" of the party...
...Enthusiastic. According to "Georges Escoulin" (a pen name said to conceal the identity of a well-known Catholic writer who has traveled in America), the chief difficulty of U.S. Roman Catholics is an inferiority complex. Because the church arrived late in the U.S., he says, the big problem for the immigrating Catholic was to get himself accepted. For this reason he has had to show, "and prove by his whole behavior, that. . . he is devoted to 'The American Way,' that he has adopted it, and will, in turn, get others to adopt it." He has had no easy...
...spoofs about radio deserve a mild hand. Wally Cox, a young monologuist who writes his own stuff, deserves a very loud cheer. By means of a quiet Will-Rogersish manner and a sharp Ring-Lardnerish pen, he creates a couple of monstrously matter-of-fact characters that are both hilarious and appalling...