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...strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...
Church bells will ring for Radcliffe's seniors today as they march across Cambridge Common, but they've rung already for the 'Cliffe's top graduate...
Although he has rung up record salaries in nightclubs ($460,000 for 46 weeks at Manhattan's Carnival) and vaudeville ($23,000 a week at Broadway's Roxy), Berle will work for nothing rather than go without an audience. He has entertained in hotel lobbies, restaurants, railroad stations, buses and cabs. (To a convulsed cab driver on whom he worked during a recent ride, Milton cracked: "You think this is funny? You should've caught me last Tuesday in a cab on 57th Street...
Bowdoin should pose little difficulty. If the Crimson can rack up a substantial lead in the singles, Barnaby expects to substitute lower-rung squad members in the late afternoon doubles for the sake of experience...
Squeeze. "Ward's had just rung up its biggest profit (equal to $10.28 a share) and the vice presidents were awaiting the customary (up to 50%) bonus on their $35,000 to $45,000 salaries. No, said Avery, there would be no bonus. Instead, the same amount would be given as a salary increase. Said Vice President Charles M. Odorizzi: "We'd have to stay a whole year to collect; it was a dodge to make sure he had us where he wanted...