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...Agency, to the intriguing, like the Information Gathering Service, which conducts surveys and undertakes translations. And HSA's businessmen range from the more or less indifferent student who takes the HSA job because the work is interesting and the pay is good to the high-powered, high-geared super-salesman who enjoys wheeling and dealing and is attracted by potentially high salaries...
Improvement by typical graduates in words per minute.* Easy Easy Easy Dif. Dif. Name Occupation Bg. End. Bg. End Burns, K., engineer 440 1536 272 2464 Bonner, P., sales rep. 292 816 320 840 Honeywell Carlson, E., engineer 240 1000 210 1100 Cleary, M., salesman 365 1728 240 1920 Dushman, B., B.U. student 536 2583 522 2510 Fabiyi, E., trainee, A.D.L. 220 1584 270 780 Hamlen, D., ins't supervisor 490 1500 402 1000 Hoagland, J., vice pres. 320 3000 236 1160 Jones, L., assoc. prof. 415 3225 280 2416 Jones, M., math teacher 362 624 260 1160 Turner...
Within Pulitzer, writes Swanberg, were "two warring individuals-Pulitzer the reformer and Pulitzer the salesman." On the one hand, Pulitzer's two principal newspapers-the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World-showed a zeal for news gathering and a passion for reform that changed the shape of U.S. journalism. On the other hand, Pulitzer built up circulation by pandering to the lowest public tastes...
With good reason. Not only are they welded together by the sheer fact of being the Beatles, but they also share a common lower-middle-class background in the sooty, Victorian shadows of Liverpool. Paul, the son of a cotton salesman, and John, who was raised by an aunt after his father deserted the family, were playing together as early as 1955. George, whose father was a bus driver, joined them in 1958. Two years later they met Ringo (born Richard Starkey), a docker's son. Their families were dubious about musical careers...
Died. Thomas E. Millsop, 68, retired president (1954-61) and chairman (1961-64) of National Steel Corp., fourth biggest U.S. producer; of a heart attack; in Weirton, W.Va. Millsop signed on as a Weirton Steel salesman in 1927, was president within nine years, moved up to head parent National in 1954, then girded for the future, installing computerized equipment and a huge new Chicago mill. Result: National was the only company among steel's Big Eight to show a sales increase (16%) during the industry's 1957-62 slump...