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What sort of courses have the greatest appeal? Typing is up 19%, shorthand 7½%, and something called Office Practice a huge 139%. Orchestra-i.e., serious instrumental music-is down 27%, but Band is up 138%. The fastest growing course of all: Driver Education, which now has seven times as many pupils as it did ten years...
...Dirty Digs." Nothing seems too trifling to pink a sensibility. NBC's files contain a letter in behalf of leather-jacket manufacturers, protesting the jacket's use as "a sort of TV shorthand" for juvenile hoodlums. In Kansas the Independence Reporter ran an editorial accusing the networks of airing "dirty little nonsensical digs" at Kansas. Wrote a Pittsburgh physician: "Why is it that whenever a TV situation calls for a pharmacist he is always a doddering old incompetent?" Complained a Las Vegas waitress: "Something [should] be done about always depicting a waitress as a hardboiled, gum-chewing, illiterate...
...will have more difficulty. There are almost always odd jobs or moving furniture or mowing lawns which fellows can pick up. Girls looking for work, however, must have more than "charm." There is a lot of demand for young women with specific skills, such as typing, comptometer operation, and shorthand. Since such specialized skills are unusual in summer school girls, however, the picture is not bright...
...difficult to break into a new job with a new boss, businessmen concentrate on hiring "malleable" younger women. The trouble is that youngsters lack experience, are often unable to keep up with the office work load. Ten years ago a beginner took at least 120 words per minute in shorthand, did 60 in -typing; today, she often takes only about 80 words per minute in shorthand, types 45. Secretarial schools cannot 'boost the standards; company raiders leave them with classrooms half empty long before graduation. Says one Atlanta school director: "Businessmen can't spell themselves, and rarely ever...
UNION leaders still talk to their members in depression-born slogans that sound as incongruous in our full-employment economy as a campaign to make "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" the national anthem. In the union lexicon, the term "Big Business" remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet the most substantial victories won by unions at the bargaining table have come from the giants of industry. It was the United States Steel Corp. that gave unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed...