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Adam K. Wilson (no relative of the management) was plant supervisor at the University Press when Eliot came there looking for a Harvard printer. An eminent craftsman, Wilson was fine choice, and remained chief printer for Harvard until his retirement in 1931. From the beginning of Wilson's stay until the late '90's the Printing Office grew in importance, doing all of the University's job printing, and finally printing the University Catalogue. It grew so rapidly that J. Bertram William '77 was appointed as publication agent to smooth over public relations between the Printing Office and faculty members...
Syria, which opposes any project that might benefit Israel, bristled that the canal was an armistice violation; from U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Vagn Bennike came a warning to the Israelis: "Cease working." The Israelis, who believe in fait accompli, put their bulldozers on three shifts. But when the U.S. suspended aid to Israel for its defiance of U.N., Israel capitulated and agreed to let the Security Council decide the dispute...
Until his staff tipped him off last week, Superintendent Roman Haremski of the Illinois State Child Welfare Division had thought the subject was closed. On two occasions, Miss Ruth Schmalhausen, supervisor of home management studies at Eastern Illinois Stat College in Charleston, had asked him to find her a real live baby for her home economics majors to care for; but each time, appalled at the idea, Haremski had said no. Now it turned out that Miss Schmalhausen had been able to find a baby on her own. By last week psychologists and educators all over the state were furiously...
...smallest counter in a department store. Once upon a time, department-store salesmen used to break into a sprint the minute the elevator door slid open. Now, after more than a decade of mere order-taking and shelf-straightening, many of them wait until called by the floor supervisor. As Manager John Glick, of Robinson's department store in Beverly Hills, pointed out: "These days, the salesmen say, 'Why work when the customer is going to sell himself anyway?' " Furthermore, the salesman, once a glamorous figure, has been too often satirized as a loud-mouthed backslapper with...
...final total of 1580 pints fell far short of the 2200 collected last year, but Mrs. Ernest Dietrich, Red Cross supervisor, described the collection as "definitely a success." The Red Cross had set a goal of 1500 pints...