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Legends of Manie's considerateness sprout all over show business. One night, the story goes, Bachelor Manie wanted to get away from a girl who had a yen for him, lied that he had to fly to Detroit. Smitten, the girl offered to ride out to the airport with him. Rather than hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without...
Almost as well known was Jim Smith's yen for Gates's job after he finished a self-imposed two-year ICA tour. Smith, a wartime carrier pilot and postwar Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1953-56), appeared a natural to become Secretary. But Gates, with White House approval, offered the job to Under Secretary William Birrell Franke (rhymes with lanky), 64, wealthy retired accountant and since 1954 a quietly competent assistant secretary for financial management. When Franke declined for health reasons (arthritis), Gates suggested Smith...
Strange Custom. Although Miyoshi's friends were gone ("My mother was crying too hard, it broke her heart"), there were still some soldiers left in Otaru, and the shy little girl began to sing with G.I. bands in their service clubs. Once she was paid 300 yen (about 90?) for a night's work. "Old family have strange custom, girl shouldn't work," she says. "I felt bad, because now I'm getting paid, really working. I guess it's too young to get paid. I gave it to my father...
John Giles Pierce, 19 next week, is a tall, husky youth with a yen to play with dynamite-or worse. Discharged from the Navy and also out on bond on a burglary indictment, he enrolled at Tyler Junior College. Aiming to be an X-ray technologist, he took practical lab work two hours a day at Mother Frances Hospital. In a back room at home he did such impractical work as making rockets that blew up ("The fuel was just too damn powerful," he explains...
...dream of most wives of white-collar workers is to save 1,000,000 yen ($2,778). "Even while she's brewing green tea or boiling rice," says an awed banker, "today's Japanese housewife is calculating risks and interest rates." Her children are not far behind. Saving against the day when they too will buy stocks as mamma does, schoolchildren savers have an average $4.93 put away in 27,000 school banks, with total deposits of $43.8 million...