Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking over his paycheck, the graduate who went in for general education has some reason to be sorry he did not specialize ("It is regrettable," said one alumnus, "but culture is inedible"). The humanities major tends to embark on an unprofitable career as teacher (27%), clergyman (/5%), or artist (1%). Even if a humanities man goes into business, the chances are about one to four he will end up just eking out his living (only 6% of the specialists find themselves in that position). The social scientists do even worse in business: 31% hold "rank-and-file" jobs...
...next forty-five minutes the evangelist roared his way through a series of Bible quotations that bore little or no relation to each other. Then he called for converts to step forward. Nobody moved. Owen coaxed, pleaded, wheedled. He prayed, "Jesus, isn't there a paycheck in the audience?" He pointed to various people and berated them for their lack of faith. Deprived of converts, he demanded fifty dollar checks and threatened those who would not give with "sleepless nights." Finally he lost his temper and shouted, "all right, you don't have to stay...
...first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes and deductions, he has only a nickel left. Even that turns out to be counterfeit, and Sad Sack is glad to reenlist...
Whispering Campaign? Lanza's paycheck for Caruso was $100,000. For his next picture he will get $150,000 (less 10% to Manager Weiler and another 10% to his agent); for the next record album, he is dickering to improve the deal that now gives him a 10% royalty on sales. But he is none too happy about the new movie script, which he rejected several times and accepted only after what he calls "a vicious whispering campaign" about his temperamental refusals. The whole thing was making him so nervous that he could not sing. To Lanza, nothing seems...
...slipped out for a few beers or a movie. Before long the word got around Boston's pool halls and political clubs that the long, grimy building down by South Station offered splendid opportunities for anyone with the urge to cheat the Government out of a paycheck...