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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parade their record before a personnel manager often discover that some of their affiliations were lost between Dean Watson's office and the Registrar's some were never recorded, and some were set down inaccurately. For another, graduates may find themselves saddled with college associations which they would prefer no one else remembered...
...like this . . . EXPERIENCED EXECUTIVE. Over past five years has successfully lost $100,000 on labor and material costs and reduced sales by $200,000. Total 5-year loss personally achieved from all sources over $375,000. Available because I have done all I can with this company. Prefer company with conservative management needing shaking up. Substantial salary expected...
Suitably depressed by this, we go on to read in What Have I Done? about an invasion of Earth by a strange emotionless race from outer space. These visitors would much prefer to take over in the manner of Communists, craftily and without violence. They get the lowly manager of an unemployment agency to teach them how to make like Earthlings. This fellow teaches them compassion, and thus foils the plot. But alas, these poor visitors were never taught how deceitful we Earthlings really are, and they must "go down beneath the ravening fury of rending and destroying man always...
According to Alex M. Hammer, Jr., secretary of the Club, over one-quarter of the membership has replied favorably to a questionnaire he sent out two weeks ago. The document asks whether members would: 1) Like to have club quarters of their own? 2) If so, would they prefer an uptown or downtown location? 3) If not, would they like to have a room set aside in the University Club for their...
...living and a taste adulterated by foreign imports. "Before the war," sighed one expert, "when you went to a country osteria, you found only wine. Today you find beer, orangeade and Coca-Cola." A good percentage of Italy's young people, according to the government survey, even prefer plain water to their elders' wine...