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Elevator operators have their ups and downs, but Leo Shean, night watchman at Lamont for the last year and a half, has had a never-ending struggle to protect the library from the curious. It's been a real challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guard Staves Off Crashers | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Hatch, armed with his letter of recommendation, stuck with it to the last, then got a job as a night watchman in a hotel. For old times' sake, he whittled while he worked. In the 1890s, he got a notion to carve decorations for his own house and barn. He did them for fun until he died in 1935, lavishing on the job all his training and skill, and using his hundred woodworking tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Museum at Home | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...people working under me in the West Punjab. Because of that man, I now work as a watchman for one rupee, eight annas [45?] a day. Now that man is dead, but what about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: That Man | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...Bank of Indo-China. With a departing Paris-Algiers plane drowning out their noise, three men had broken into the shed after midnight, heaved three kegs of the gold into a small sedan and driven away. Most memorable figure in the drama, though scarcely its hero, was Watchman Jean Quiniou, who arrived on the scene just as the men were driving off. "Had I been two minutes earlier," Watchman Quiniou pointed out philosophically, "they might have killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crazy Pete | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...committee picked was 42-year-old Psychologist Douglas Murray McGregor. Leathery, spiky-haired McGregor is an expert on "human relations." He was once night watchman at the mission his grandfather founded in the '90s for Detroit's jobless. After studying at Wayne University, he worked in a gas station, later took a Ph.D. at Harvard. In 1937, when M.I.T. decided that its engineers should be more than just animated slide rules, it hired Psychologist McGregor to see what he could do about it. He has been there ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No. 665 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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