Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better, for worse'-and it's too late to get a divorce & too late for you to walk out of the home%#151;anyway. I need" you! Nuff said." Ickes confided to his diary: "It is pretty difficult to do anything with a man who can write such a letter." Ickes stayed...
...Yugoslav embassy, where Soviet bigwigs came to assure their hosts that they now love Yugoslavia, Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov sounded as if he had hired a so-Soviet gagwriter. Offered a cigarette by a foreign newsman, he politely declined. Quipped he: "Now don't go and write that the Soviet constitution forbids smoking!" Marshal Georgy Zhukov genially ribbed other correspondents about stories that he had ominously disappeared. Chortled Zhukov: "While I was reported missing, I was enjoying a swim down south...
...Perpetual Weekend. For 15 years Hemingway has lived in Cuba. "I live here because I love Cuba-this does not imply a dislike for anyplace else-and because here I can get privacy when I write." But his life in Cuba is not quiet. Guests at the finca are apt to include friends from the wealthy sporting set, say Winston Guest or Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; pals from Hollywood, such as Gary Cooper or Ava Gardner; Spanish grandees, soldiers, sailors, Cuban politicians, prizefighters, barkeeps, painters and even fellow authors. It is open house for U.S. Air Force and Navy...
...days of the 1920's when the personable college graduate with good contracts and a nice smile could make good money as a customers' man are over. Salesmanship and contacts still are useful in finance, but financial business needs men with more assets than these. As other doubtless will write in this edition, there are excellent opportunities for men coming into finance jobs today. But the excellent opportunities are for good man, well trained, who can product results ino a competitive, not a lush, environment...
...accounting is relatively young, the art of bookkeeping and accounting originated in Babylon, 5,000 years ago. As business has expended over the centuries, accounting techniques have grown increasingly complex--even beyond the comprehension of all except these skilled in them. But their basic purpose stays the same: to write the story of business transactions in a clear and significant language, the language of money. Modern business could not exist without these techniques...