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...limited audience in Berkeley, home of the University of California. But without sponsors or commercials it had trouble making ends meet on the $10-a-year subscription fees paid by 300 of its listeners. Last August KPFA finally closed the doors of its two-studio station, regretfully fired its underpaid seven-man staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Highbrow Station | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...forgot to mention one more piece of flotsam set adrift by the current trend to depopulation and bankruptcy in colleges and universities [TIME, April 16]. It is the graduate student, working toward ... an underpaid, overworked, professorial position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...alternating spells of despair and disgust. Señora Luisa, his wife, has become a stranger, ugly, shrewish, and a convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape from the terrors of life. Only Pedro, the elder son, has learned to cope with life in Spain. A pimp, a Falangist and a black-marketeer, he keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Lace Mantilla | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

Some of Boston's underpaid firemen, policemen, and schoolteachers arranged to have post-office time cards punched for them. One man stayed away for 75 days and collected every nickel of his pay. Others came in snarling drunk. Regular employees began goofing off worse than ever, formed "50-50 Clubs" with the "temps," to cover up and split their $1.42 hourly pay. During the two-week Christmas rush, a smart checker could make as much as $5,000 by forgetting to mark down the absentees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Through Slush & Mire | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Die Monstersinger | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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