Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is strong enough to stand this treatment. It is a fond backward look at the Millers, who are struggling with big & little family crises during an old-fashioned Fourth of July. Most of the trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with...
...keep the "smoke-filled room" vigil, and to find and cover every caucus, press conference and "secret meeting." They worked 18-20 hours a day under the hot Philadelphia sun and the hotter 45,000-watt lights of Convention Hall, and about the only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation but a man I owe $78 for lumber...
...general and specific coverage of the convention hall, the speeches and political jockeying on the floor, the hotel room conferences, caucuses, the squabbling and horse-trading among the voting delegations, Senior Editor Otto Fuerbringer and the entire National Affairs staff, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley and his staff, and Chief of U.S. Correspondents David Hulburd, will be on hand. They will have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom in the basement of convention hall complete with teletype, television facilities,* and direct telephone communication with TIME'S New York and Washington offices, the press gallery...
...just working at my afternoon job at Slater's Book Store," said Michigan Senior Art Derdarian, "when somebody came in, interviewed me, and offered me $70 a week at Burroughs Adding Machine...
...many seniors, it was as simple as that. Corporation talent scouts had swarmed into college employment bureaus, fighting for prospects. Columbia University figured that 80% of its graduating class would have jobs by July 1. The average M.I.T. senior, had six offers. Harvard Business School graduates were signing up for as much as $5,000 a year. Wellesley was "overwhelmed" with demands for secretaries...