The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-11-03
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lot Of celebrities and heard a lot
Of talk. The dedication of the
new UN building on East And
street was colorful, and just to
make it right, the weather man
cooperated too, and the sun came
out of a cloudy sky and shone
down on President Truman at the
very beginning of his speech. He
looked trim and healthy. Behind
him, along with other prominent
figures, sat Governor Tom Dewey
Of New York, the man who, but
for few hundred thousand vot-
ers, would have been speaking in
Truman's place. 1t was an inn
pressive occasion, devoted 20
peace. hope that Foreign Minis
ter Vishinsky of Russia who also
sat on the platform, took the
peaceful words to heart.
went up to one Of the few
theatre ticket agencies left in this
town--since the city government
closed most of them for scalpirg
and asked with a perfectly
straight face for two tickets for
that evening to the hit show,
South Pacific" The woman in
charge looked at me as il had
just walked out of an insane asy-
lum. Were selling those tickets
only for February now" she said
icily. ] smiled and explained that
I knew It was something like that.
and that l only wanted to find out
what she would ssy.
Joe Doctor is connected with
Laidlaw and Company, one Of the
big Wall Street firms which deal
in stocks and bonds. The 'csm-
pany's offices are located at 26
Broadway, the Standard Oil
building where John d. Rockwell
Ter, ST., once held financial sway.
But Joe does not sit at a big fine
desk with plush carpets and over
stuffed furniture. Instead, he has
"a small, worn desk piled with pa
pers and notes just inside the big
door of the firm and in a room
with a dozen other men. Here
Joe greets his many friends, car
ries on his business informally
and has good time. But Joe
dosn't have to sit here. He is
worth good dral Of money, and
could be a partner in the firm,
with all the accompanying ele-
gance. This he does not want.
'1seprefers a sinaalie, good liffe and
would rather 1sit by the side Of
the road and be friend to man."
Today's average business exc
cutive is 81 years of age, I recent
~ learned. TINS is sever years
older than the man who hrld the
sam job in 1879. One reaspn for
this change is the war when the
training of young executives was
interrupted by service IN the
armed forces. Also senior Of
ficers have found that with heavy
Income taxes, it takes longer to
make enough to retire. A seri-
GUS aspect of this situation, how
ever, is that many companies are
concerned over who will take the
place Of their top men who will
have to step down before many
more years--and there are not
enough trained younger ones-at
least at this stage--to replace
them.
The pitchman as New York's
sidewalk statesmen are called -
have been having a heyday in tine
pretty weather here OF late. These
energetic, loquacious men carry
their stores on their backs or UNI
der their arms, and PUNK them
down and set up shop quickly on
any stretch Of sidewalk where a
cop is absent-then they move on
when the policeman shows up, be-
fore getting pinched. l nearly al
ways stop and look at their wares,
whether 1t is imitation jewelry,
razor blades for dime a dozen
or @genu-yine" nylon ladies hose
for only Is cents. The other day
] paused in crowd around a
pitchman selling "reaY-honest-to-
goodness gold-plated fountain pen
md pencil sets for-you won't
believe it, ladies and gentlemen
but only so cents for the pair"
A bystander took hold Of one of
the pens, gently pulled and it
came apart, exposing the cheap
inside rubber. Quick as flash
the pitchie cried, "See, you can
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