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...biggest agencies are the one which runs the Campus Center snack bar--which has served over 1000 people in a day and the tailor shop which did a $90,000 business last year. Men start off in an agency of their own choosing in freshman year, do "coolie jobs at hourly wages," then work themselves up to foremen, junior managers, and managers. The latter receive a flat sum of $75 a month in large agencies, $50 in the small ones. Surplus money made from the more profitable agencies goes into the scholarship fund. Ideas for new agencies are suggested...
...biggest agencies are the one which runs the Campus Center snack bar--which has served over 1000 people in a day and the tailor shop which did a $90,000 business last year. Men start off in an agency of their own choosing in freshman year, do "coolie jobs at hourly wages," then work themselves up to foremen, junior managers, and managers. The latter receive a flat sum of $75 a month in large agencies, $50 in the small ones. Surplus money made from the more profitable agencies goes into the scholarship fund. Ideas for new agencies are suggested...
...Wrappers. Edwin Goodman,now 75, is the son and grandson of shopkeepers who would have been flabbergasted by his store's opulence. On his office wall hangs one of his father's ads: "Ladies wrappers at 37½" Edwin Goodman started out as a tailor working for Manhattan dressmaker Herman Bergdorf in a little gaslit shop on lower Fifth Avenue, soon bought into the business with $15,000 borrowed from relatives. One day, Goodman helped make a special suit for Bergdorf's sister, who was private secretary to Mrs. William Goadby Loew, a prominent society matron...
Above the judges' heads on the wall of the Amman courtroom hung a black-draped picture of Jordan's late King Abdullah, his eyes fixed sternly on the proceedings. On trial: ten alleged accomplices of the little tailor's apprentice, a terrorist disciple of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who fired five bullets into Abdullah at Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock (TIME, July...
Before Mary Eileen Spargo was married nine years ago, she drew $1,200 from her bank account, which she closed, and collected a check for $2,700 from her lawyer for the sale of property. Her husband, a tailor's presser named George Cecil Horry, announced that he was taking Mary Eileen to England. Instead, the couple left on a honeymoon trip to New Zealand's lonely Waitakere Mountains. The bride was never seen again...