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...training program has taken Hood into jobs in various parts of the company - production, research, travel bureau, and business offices of different TIME Inc. publications. In these jobs, he worked at a variety of desks and in temporarily vacant offices. Once, when he was using the office of former FORTUNE Publisher C. D. Jackson, who was away at the time, an insurance salesman came to deliver a policy he had sold Hood. Ushered into the office by a secretary, the salesman looked at Hood with a mixture of perplexity and admiration. Said Hood: "I could just see what was going...
...Things Have Their Day." In summing up his time, Santayana judged it no more charitably than he had judged persons and places: "The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably . . . The peculiar malady of my times . . . was . . . vacant freedom and indeterminate progress: Vorwärts! Avanti! Onward! Full speed ahead! without asking whether directly before you was not a bottomless...
Action in the Afternoon (weekdays, 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV) has a permanent outdoor set: a Western cowtown built by Philadelphia's WCAU-TV on a vacant lot. But, though the TV camera gets outdoors, it has little freedom: there are no long chases on horseback or free-for-all barroom brawls in the movie horse-opera tradition. The dialogue limps even more obviously than the camera. Action in the Afternoon, still without sponsor, is an experiment that needs a lot more work...
This marks the first time two men have jointly held the job. The post has been left vacant since the resignation of Robert L. Fischelis '49 last December...
Reynolds told postal officials the University does not have a building available, for the post office's use, and that he sees little chance a vacant lot of the University will be available for the new office...