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...ALBERT SACK Philadelphia...
...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...
...most painfully confused. "I feel," he wrote grimly, "like the rim of a wheel that goes round and round and never gets nearer to the axle." Was marriage what he needed? He got himself engaged, but had nightmares in which his fiancee tried to shut him up in a sack. Was a job what he needed? Fate made him an offer, and he took...
...weeks ago the trustees decided that they had had enough of Steven. When Jesse Jones's nephew, John T. Jones Jr., a firm supporter of Steven, resigned as chairman of the board of trustees, the remaining five trustees voted to sack Steven and three top aides and replace them with the men who had run the paper in its conservative days. The trustees offered no explanations, but Steven had his own: "The conservatives scalped...
...time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56?-per-hour chars have been given the sack. What did they think of that? "He wants to run Sandringham like a destroyer," muttered one old retainer...