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Sometimes though, the office cannot satisfy employers. For example, one Mid-Western manufacturer of ladies' underwear, has for years past asked for graduates from the College to do sales work for him. Many lingerie-minded students have tried for the job, but all have failed. They never met the apparently vital specification that they be between five foot ten and six feet one tall...
Almost every big-city university has a flourishing adult-education program, but Columbia University's "Extension" has long been something special. It has given the usual courses in "The Care and Mending of Children's Underwear" and "How a City Man Can Succeed in Farming." But students have also been able to take philosophy under John Dewey, anthropology under Ruth Benedict, literature under John Erskine, law under Harold Medina, theology under Reinhold Niebuhr. Extension has been a bargain counter loaded with first-rate goods. Over the years, thousands of adults-from Critic Lionel Trilling to Baseballer Lou Gehrig...
Inside Man. On the central front, Korea, a captured Chinese soldier who wore several layers of underwear, two quilted uniforms, a double-breasted overcoat, new boots and winter cap, explained: "I'm a supply sergeant...
...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
Life Story His patients had lately found him gruff and moody. Nevertheless, Dr. Raymond Roscoe Squier was one of the most successful gynecologists in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. On a hot afternoon last week, he was neither in his office nor at his home: dressed only in his underwear, he was sitting at a portable typewriter in a bedroom at Manhattan's University Club, pecking out the story of his life...