Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifth largest daily and its Sunday edition (circ. 1,108,209) is Philly's biggest, also ranks fifth in the land. But last week the Inquirer put the finishing touches on a financial deal that seemed entirely out of character: it was paying staffers bonuses to quit...
Behind the bonuses-for-quitting policy was an effort to pare down the Inquirer's bulging head count-more than" 700 editorial and office employees. After an American Newspaper Guild strike last summer (TIME, June 23; July 21) in which job security on the overstaffed Inquirer was a major issue, management and guild agreed that to anyone who resigned or retired in the last half of 1958 the paper would pay a bonus of one week's pay for every year of employment, plus full severance pay (maximum: 31 weeks). The plan worked. In all, 142 employees quit...
Olmedo, 22-year-old Peruvian who was the sensation of America's Davis Cup victory, had to quit after playing 12 games as the partner of MacKay in doubles. He said the pain was so severe he could not serve...
...Personnel turnover can be high or low, but it is never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
...Coach Frankie Albert, whose San Francisco Forty Niners finished with an unimpressive 6-6 record, quit with a bellow of rage. Said Albert: "My wife ran out of grocery stores where she could shop without being insulted. My daughter Nancy [15] quit going to games this year. Janie [12] checked out a month ago. I know what my problems are, and I expect to worry about them. But when my six-year-old daughter [Terry] starts to worry about them, that's too much...