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Shoes, Ships &; Stamps. Actually, the career of Economist Burns passed through a good many more phases than that. Burns was born 49 years ago in Austrian Poland. He was nine when he and his father came to the U.S. Arthur worked as a postal clerk, waiter, theater usher, dishwasher, oil-tanker mess boy, and salesman of shoes, furniture and real estate. By his third year as a student at Columbia, Burns had decided that he wanted to be an economist. After graduation he started teaching economics and doing research work while writing his doctor's thesis. Its subject: "Production...
Married. Captain Manuel J. ("Pete") Fernandez Jr., 28, the Air Force's No. 3 ace of the Korean war (14½ MIGs); and Jean Marie Eberman, 26, National Airlines stewardess; with Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., No. 1 jet ace (16 MIGs), serving as an usher; in Miami...
Without barking (one yip would mean disqualification) and guided only rarely by whistles, calls or hand signals from Allen, Rock outstared, outflanked and outsmarted the flock around the course. He drove them through null gates set up in right and left field, losing two points for failing to usher a stray ewe through one gate. Finally, Rock worked them all over to a small pen which Allen had opened. Glaring fiercely, the dog got four sheep to back slowly inside. However, a rebellious old ewe charged at Rock. Without even "popping his jaws" (snapping with feigned ferocity) or guiding...
...ways (all four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota's crusty Republican Representative Usher L. Burdick told his colleagues: "Now, if you want to legislate yourselves right out of control of this House, you get in here and oppose soil conservation...
When Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was a dozen years old, in 1903, a youngster named John Jackson Totten landed a job as an usher. Over the next 24 years, Usher Totten worked his way from top-balcony tyro to hall manager. Last week Carnegie Hall let down its hair, set up tables on its stage for the first time in history, and served up a banquet for Manager Totten's Soth anniversary...