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Jocelin discovers his own sexuality with a jolt, in his passionate guilt toward the woman he had used to detain the Master Builder. He begins to question the pious motives which led him to marry her, his "daughter in God," to an important church sweeper. But even here some of the circumstances seem arbitrary. The spire's mysterious patroness turns out to have been the dead king's mistress, angling for immortality. The news that this woman also has supervised his rise in the church hastens Jocelin further into delirium...
Thirty-six years after he started out as a sidewalk sweeper for the St. Louis Zoo, R. Marlin Perkins, 57-onetime moderator of NBC-TV's popular Zoo Parade, goes back on Oct. 1 as its $22,500-a-year boss. A herpetologist who once missed a TV show because a rattler bit him on the hand during rehearsal. Perkins has directed Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo since 1944. accompanied Sir Edmund Hil lary in a fruitless Himalayan hunt for the Abominable Snowman in 1960. St. Louis should prove almost as lively. Among the charges passed...
Faced with a Communist guerrilla uprising in Malaya in 1948, the British prepared for a long piecemeal war. While infantry patrols harried the Reds in the impenetrable jungle, the British used a "carpet sweeper" technique on the jungle's edges: gathering up peasants from isolated huts and hamlets and concentrating them in walled "strategic" villages protected by troops and home guards...
...Long Island plant Abilities, Inc. has the most unusual hiring policy in the nation. No one, from president to sweeper, can get a job unless he is so handicapped physically that he is unemployable by common industry standards. Yet Abilities is no charity. Everyone is paid the prevailing wage scale, and the company grossed $2,500,000 last year competing in the open market for electronic assembly subcontracts. In nine years it has grown from a garage with four employees (only five good arms and one good leg among them) to a modern million-dollar plant with...
Heady Bunch. He got a job as sweeper and water carrier in a Spokane railroad yard, where his only bedroom was a tent, his mattress a bundle of straw. He worked as a porter, scrubbed floors, saved enough money to get to Los Angeles. There a teacher in the public school, which he was attending to learn English, noticed how skillfully he drew the little figures to illustrate maps. The teacher got him into the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Though he still had to work as a bellhop in winter and a fruit picker in summer, Kuniyoshi...