Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, hustling, strapping Charles E. Percy has been a young businessman in a hurry. To work his way through college (his banker father had gone broke in the depression), Chuck Percy ran a wholesale business supplying the university's fraternities with food, coal, furniture and linen. He also held two other jobs, and captained the rough, tough water polo team. In the summer vacation of 1937 he took a job at $12 a week in Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras). For the next 11½ years...
...Boss. This week, Percy got the go-ahead to finish the job-and in his own way. To succeed McNabb, who died last week, the directors chose him president. At 29, he is boss of a company that sold $18 million worth of motion-picture cameras and equipment last year, and earned a net profit of some...
...second sequence, which has a strong satiric bite, hits a more realistic standard. It details a crisis in the home of an idealistic schoolteacher (Kirk Douglas) who rebels at the way his wife (Ann Sothern) helps earn the family living, i.e., by writing soap operas. In spite of the glass house it lives in, Hollywood here throws some viciously well-aimed stones at radio...
...latest book, Holes in the Sky, continues along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...
Dormitory work chairmen voiced approval of the measure at a meeting last Tuesday as the only way to keep the $40 a year price increase from going even higher, Student Government president Joan Projansky '49 said yesterday. The additional student work hours will reduce service costs in the dorms...