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Fact was that Condè Nast was a sound publishing property. It had fought its way put of heavy depression losses ($500,000 m 1933). Taking cognizance of the new luxury-clipped realities, it had unloaded Vanity Fair and The American Golfer, tapped wider audiences with Hollywood Patterns and Glamour. What it needed now to keep it solvent was shrewd management. Condè-Nastians agree that President "Pat" Patcèvitch promises a more solvent future than anybody else in sight...
Success in the Freshman competition opens the way for glory in wider fields. Six Sophomores will be chosen as Second Assistants to the Senior Managers next year, and of these, three will be eliminated at the end of the Sophomore competition that fall. The three who survive this sifting process will automatically take over immediately under the two and one-half year War-Time setup during the next year
...years, flame-haired young Claudia Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading...
...already knows how to put them in." He takes as a personal challenge the fact that over 50,000 people die every year in the U.S. of asphyxiation. For years his Society for the Prevention of Asphyxial Death has been working, despite a lack of funds, for a wider knowledge of resuscitation techniques by laymen and especially doctors...
Although the program is directed toward preparation for certain types of examinations given by national and state Civil Service Commissions, the members of the Department who have had experience with the work of governmental and research agencies feel that it also will be invaluable for a much wider range of public service work than those particular examinations would indicate...