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...secretaries were not at all pleased by a list of "ten commandments" drawn up by a panel of businessmen. Samples: "Keep the tired businessman's pills straight. Dress with decorum, not decollete; the boss wants to keep his mind on his work. Correct the boss's grammar and spelling, but do it tactfully. Take messages that won't need the decoding of a top secret. When the boss's wife calls, be diplomatic. Be compatible, but not too compatible...
Most of the talk is handled by a young scientist (Ronald Reagan) who is suffering from epilepsy, and a handsome widow (Viveca Lindfors) who is addicted to depressing chats with the spirit of her dead husband. Also involved in the impromptu panel discussions are a garrulous painter (Broderick Crawford) and the widow's younger sister (Osa Massen), who is a heavy tippler with leanings toward nymphomania...
...there the class in world history was using TIME for a panel discussion (see cut). I joined in and we had a fine time. A 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Clare Bakash said that she and her family depended on TIME for a complete report on world news-especially because she could not count on receiving foreign news broadcasts clearly at home. Amik Zaharkian, 13, an Armenian, told me that he admired TIME'S style very much, but he thought that you had to be 'very well educated to understand it.' Steven Bochner, a 15-year...
...from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned: "We'd better get out of the American market." As their contracts with U.S. buyers broke down (2,561 cases since last July), browbeaten businessmen ran to the Board of Trade's "Advisory Panel on Frustrated Exports" for permission to unload in the British market...
...speaker's panel were representatives from four phases of are: John Ciardi, Bates-Copeland Instructor in English--poetry; Boris Goldovsky, Director of the New England Opera Association--music; Denis Johnston, Director of the Theater Guild on the air--drams; and Harley Perkins, President of the Independent Artists...