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...successfully swindled the public out of $800,000. In his various deals with city officials, said Travis, he had "paid out at least $75,000 in payola." Travis testified that the chief of the Division of Architecture and Engineering and a former secretary had received $25,000. Another civil servant was rewarded with a gift...
...really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half-dollars that would be flung into the faces of lesser men. J. P. Marquand also knew, along with the late George...
Unsalaried, Unlettered. For four days each week, the peasants must work for the hacienda; they are supposed to get one sol, or 4?, per day for their labor; in practice, they say, they get nothing. In addition, they and their wives must do servant duty in the big house for a week at a time, also without pay. If a sheep strays, or is killed by a fox, the peasant must prove that the loss is "an act of God"; otherwise it is required that he must replace the animal from his own herd or pay in cash...
Died. Chester Irving Barnard, 74, civic servant and management expert who left the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. in 1948, after 21 years, to direct the Rockefeller Foundation (his 1952 successor: Dean Rusk), also served as World War II boss of U.S.O., State Department consultant on atomic policy; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...consecrated next May, the completed cathedral will have two unusual chapels: the Chapel of Unity, designed for use by all denominations of Protestants, and the Guild Chapel (the Chapel of Christ the Servant), which will be dedicated to industry, trade unions, guilds and management associations. Already in use is a small Lady chapel in the crypt, its altar splendid with a bronze and glass cross by Sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, who was obviously inspired by the charred timber cross still standing in the ruins. In the crypt each day, lunch-hour services are held for a congregation...