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...office-furniture industry does not neglect the executive's helpers. On display at the same Chicago show last week was a new automatic typewriter-a gadget which makes up business letters from numerous combinations of recorded sentences (e.g., "yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...
...Afraid of the Big Bad G.A.O.?," we have found our usually overflowing letter-box (damn those girls) even more super-saturated as bewildered ex-Seniors turn to the Lucky Bag for succour in hour of DEspair. Bear with us as we quote a few of the missives rec'd:--Dear Carpet (or is it Lucky...
...vote-getting side, Lapham turned out to have virtues: a World War I rec ord; a start in life as clerk of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. (he is now board chairman). As an employer member of the National War Labor Board, Lapham won praise from Franklin Roosevelt for his fairmindedness; once he was even praised as a "fair and honest" employer by militant Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Chosen as head of the bureau-on rec ommendation of Donald Nelson,* head of the Supply Priorities & Allocations Board -was Nelson's old private-industry boss: ex-Board Chairman Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Shy, esthetic Lessing Rosenwald retired in 1939, since has administered his philanthropies (including the noted Rosenwald Fund started by his father) and pursued his hobby of collecting etchings. Last summer he went to Washington as head of OPM's commodity section on silk. He was once a member of the America First Committee and an outspoken Willkie supporter in the last campaign...
...essence, the "I" who tells Look Back On Happiness is 79-year-old Knut Hamsun himself, as fierce and fine an old man as ever declined to batten on the adulation of fools. And his novel is less a novel than a devoutly unpretentious rec ord of things he values, or despises...