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...befits one of the most widely read authors in the U.S., Erskine Caldwell, 53, lives handsomely and high. Perched on a sheer-sloped San Francisco peak, his rented modernistic house is on the second-highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere...
Government efficiency experts estimate that only 20% of the civil servants really try to help the hapless citizen who must do business-and battle-with the state. The rest either do little or do nothing, throughout their easy workday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. By law, nothing can tear even the indolent and the inefficient from the payrolls except criminal conviction for repeated flagrant insubordination, which must be proved in a formal trial. Ministries are loaded with "temporary workers" who stay until death. Forbidden to hire new stenographers, the Ministry of Justice put them on the rolls as "prison...
...another. I kept quitting because of illness. They got sick of me." Finally he came to roost at Detroit's WXYZ, where two years ago he was the summer network replacement for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, clobbering its rating in several cities. Outside an 18-hour workday at the studio, Soupy lives quietly in flossy Grosse Pointe with his attractive ex-vocalist wife Barbara, their two children, three and five, and a 3,000-disk record collection. There, instead of Vite-A-Minnies, he tosses down a couple of hard drinks before bedtime, rarely goes out because, he says...
Clean That Plate. Charles's workday now begins at 9:15 after he hangs up his coat and hat on a peg newly labeled "Prince Charles." At the double desk he shares with a London doctor's son, he studies reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography and science, will soon add Latin and elementary anatomy. At 11 a.m. he gets half a pint of free milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate...
...crisis in Hungary or the Middle East, night lights burned long in the fifth-floor State Department suite of a man laboring earnestly to help dictate the shifts. Herbert Hoover Jr., Acting Secretary of State while his chief recuperated in Walter Reed Hospital, had pushed his normal twelve-hour workday to 15 and 18 hours, was gaining extra confidence with each extra duty...