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...Techniques of PT. Meanwhile, PT No. 1 continues as a major phenomenon in the publishing world. Not long ago Dr. Peale dropped into a bookstore and asked how his book was doing compared to the Kinsey Report. Peale's was way ahead. "You know," said the salesgirl, "religion is much more popular than sex this year...
...many of whom began work unable to speak English. Channeled in by church groups and welfare agencies, immigrants spent in this store the years needed to gain citizenship. Here, a combination of German and English helped case them into the American culture. Transforming lawyer to chef, college student to salesgirl, for some the shop was merely an orientation center; but many have remained there permanently...
Died. Margaret Grace Bondfield, so, Britain's first woman cabinet minister (1929-31) and pioneer in the British labor movement; in Sanderstead, England. Self-educated daughter of a Somerset lacemaker, she began her career as a 14-year-old salesgirl working a 76-hour week in London, soon organized a union among her sister workers. No ultra-feminist, "Saint Maggie" rose through the ranks of the male-led labor movement to head its powerful Trades Union Congress. Elected to Parliament (1923), Socialist Bondfield became Minister of Labor in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived Labor government...
...play Santa Claus. Children clambered obediently to his lap, and business went on as usual. But, from time to time, a palsied old man with a white beard could be seen peering anxiously in the store window only to shuffle away with head bent. A salesgirl thought she recognized him, but she could not be sure...
Trade Secret. In Manhattan, when two gunmen held up a candy store, one of them sidled up to Salesgirl Juanita Christian and murmured: "Don't be frightened. I'm just as scared...