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...Over this vast system presides a comparatively young man?Walter Sherman Gifford. When he was graduated from Harvard in 1905 he became Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Western Electric Co. at Chicago. The Bell System for years has been encouraging alert college graduates to enter its organization. Thorough courses in telephonic practices are at the disposal of everyone. Students advance as their abilities mature. No cliques of office politics hamper promotion. So after three years Mr. Gifford became Chief Statistician for the parent corporation, the job he held until 1916, when he went into War work. He became Supervising...
...that the leaving is so much the pleasanter. For the home coming tourist is delayed far longer in his own harbor than in any foreign port at which he has landed. Not more rigid inspection, but merely less component maneuvers of government officials, mysterious and inscrutable, keep the Traveller alert for hours beneath the statue, his trip over, his baggage ready, his friends just beyond sight on the dock waiting. Perhaps a new wrist watch on high might record the wasted hours and remind the inspectors of the value of time...
...stars on a wall-less, roofless porch. She arose early, greeting milkmen and "newsies" on her morning walks. She would have no automobile until very lately, when she could not refuse her brother's gift. "Woman of character" her biographers call her, keen-minded, a voracious reader, benevolent, an alert citizen, "one to know whom is a benediction...
There was a lonely saluki, or gazelle hound, the only one of its species ever seen in Manhattan, a sly dog that looked for all the world like a cross between a collie and a greyhound. There were four papillons (little spaniels rechristened by the French because their alert bearing and erect ears reminded poetic fanciers of a butterfly). There was one blue-blooded pug, last survivor of a breed that once prowled in every lady's chamber. There were hundreds of airdales, Dobermann pinschers, sealinghams, Scotch terriers, bulldogs, griffons, sheepdogs, collies, setters, pointers, springer spaniels, foxhounds. But among them...
...about which tiny wrinkles have come, in his masterful grey mustache and his silky grey hair, in these they will not see the boy of 16 who on the death of his seafaring father went into a New Haven, Conn., wire mill as a common laborer. But he was alert, had already begun consciously to train his now superb memory, studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager of the important Pittsburgh Wire Co. of Braddock, Pa. He knew more...