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...pivotal symbol of the book is Pressure Stillman Gus Hammer, in whom, as his stills and his lifetime's skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile little tricks of sabotage, dangerously overambitious misjudgments of what a still bottom will bear. They have to pension Gus off two years before his time, and all he is good for is sitting down by the lake...
Power of Deduction. In Des Moines, Sportswriter Leighton House, whose pay check carried on its stub the usual list of wartime deductions (for Social Security, hospital insurance, company pension, Community Chest, war bond, victory tax), made a natural mistake, tore up the check, tried to deposit the stub at his bank...
...health was further impaired by a spell in a concentration camp under the brief Communist dictatorship of 1952. Thereafter his once considerable vitality seems to have deserted him. . . . From being a premature, he became a forgotten man. His immediate needs were relieved by a small Civil-List pension...
...Long Beach, Calif., where he founded his famed pension movement nine years ago, Dr. Francis E. Townsend returned last week to rally his followers-and at the fountainhead to try to refresh his own optimism. For Townsendism, thanks to the thousands of jobs that war has opened to oldsters, had fallen on discouraging times...
...press at the Douglas plant, earns $51 a week with Sunday overtime, complains only that his foreman refuses to let him work every Sunday. Says Albert McCray: "I haven't been to the club there in some little bit. I'd rather have a job than a pension any time. Why, I'm making better than $175 a month here, more money than I ever made in my life at wage work. Anyway, when you're working you're not idling around and liable to get into some meanness...