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Just in case the New York City Board of Estimate might hesitate over the proposed salary raise for teachers, the New York Times dropped a couple of hints. Whether or not he can read or write, said the Times, the average car washer in a Manhattan garage makes $72 a week, the rookie street cleaner gets $84. The starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree...
...close to 40 years Alice was companion, housekeeper and quite often chief cook and bottle washer for Fellow U.S. Expatriate Gertrude Stein, who made her name a literary household word with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (which was, of course, the autobiography of Gertrude Stein). One thing the two spinsters and their arty friends loved was good food, and it was up to Alice to see that they got it, because Gertrude herself didn't like household work or even "to see work being done." Gertrude died in 1946 leaving Alice most of her estate. Now 78, Alice...
BORG-WARNER'S Norge Division, fifth biggest appliance maker (1953 sales: $44.5 million), had a phenomenal 29 % jump in sales in the first four months of 1954, is now looking for a total 50% increase by year's end. Norge's prize product, its automatic washer, is up 40% (v. a 10% jump for the industry); and a newly designed refrigerator has zoomed 186.4% over...
...psychologists turn grey: a nation-wide newspaper contest inspired by the cartoon strip Dennis the Menace. Mothers were asked to send in (for cash prizes of $25-$75) the very worst pranks their youngsters have pulled. An early winner: a 2½-year-old who pried open the automatic washer (flooding the house), stuffed dry spaghetti into the electric mixer (burning it out), cut a shirt to shreds with scissors, painted the neighbor's garage a bright rainbow of colors...
...equipped or renovated for anywhere from $500 to $15,000. The lower price pays for about twelve running feet of cabinets and counter tops, a sink, but no appliances. A $15,000 kitchen would include custom-built wood cabinets, stainless steel sink and counter tops, dishwasher, disposer, freezer, refrigerator, washer, dryer, an electric oven in the wall, a fireplace, special cabinets for trays, bottles, cutlery and vegetables...