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Theodore Morrison '23, Director of English A, said that at present, the relatively sure and conventional way of climbing the college teaching ladder is to start by getting a Ph.D. and then doing research and continuing "professional scholarship." Because of the war situation, college hiring policies are uncertain, and now few new men are being taken...
...Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Bill Roberts and Bill John son are known by everybody as "The Two Bills." Reason: they were scarcely ever apart on their way up the executive ladder; both had become members of the 104-year-old company's executive committee...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...
Conductor Alessandro's new job puts him a rung up the ladder as U.S. conductorships go (he will have $320,000 to spend on San Antonio's symphony and opera seasons, as compared to $157,000 at Oklahoma City). Says Alessandro: "There comes a time in a musical career when a change is best. You never know when this will bethere are no Drew Pearsons in the musical world. But it is best for the orchestra as well as the conductor...