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Both instructors and assistant professors will receive a $500 increase in maximum salary. The first group will earn up to $6,000 and the second up to $8,200. Salaries for teaching fellows--paid by the percentage of a 40 hour week spent in preparation and instruction of classes--will be raised $80 per fifth...
Hard-presesd for time, Miss Albright practices for an hour-and-a-half each morning before classes. She spent her undergraduate years at Radcliffe and is now a second year student at the Medical School...
Biggest Selling Job. At 19 he was selected by his church to spend two years as a Mormon missionary, took off for Great Britain. He spent 18 months in Scotland preaching the Mormon gospel from door to door, then went to London to preach for six more months from a soapbox in Hyde Park and at Tower Hill. The competition from other soapboxers for listeners was so tough that Romney teamed up with a red-bearded Socialist to catch an audience. They agreed to heckle each other's meetings regularly, thus both drew crowds. Says Romney: "I suppose some...
Back in the U.S., Romney spent a year at the University of Utah before heading for Washington in search of a job-and Lenore, who had moved there when her father took a Government job. Romney was hired by Massachusetts' Democratic Senator David I. Walsh as a speedwriter. When his speedwriting turned out to lack speed, Walsh kept him on anyway, put him to work keeping track of legislative matters...
When Lenore Lafount moved to New York to study acting, he spent all his weekends there. In 1930 he went to work as a lobbyist for Aluminum Co. of America; when Lenore got an offer from Hollywood (she was a bit player), he convinced Alcoa that he would be more valuable in their West Coast office. "I kept thinking," he says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took...