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Rufus

COLLEGE HERO

removed his

horn-rimmed he, Rufe, had failed. Dave wasn't any- glasses and began wiping them with a where near as well-equipped.

In September Rufe had a letter from handkerchief,

"Dave," he said, "you shouldn't be,Dave. Dave wanted him to come up going out to-night. You should stay 'to New York for a get-together. Rufc He was amazed at the change home and cram for to-morrow's chem- went.

in Dave. Gone was the old swagger- istry exam.”

exam.

manner. Dave Steuding gave a final tug to his ing, confident, self-assured

1," Dave had mellowed. He was meek and chemistry exam," tie. "To-morrow's he grinned, will be coped with when mild and had developed an inferiority No one, it seemed, wanted to-morrow comes. What's more, I'll hit complex.

an ex-college hero to help build bridges. At it right between the eyes."

They talked the situation over. Rufus exhaled onto his glasses and

He knew length Rufe thought of a plan. "We began rubbing them again, that Dave would pass the chemistry ought to do something to attract at- be tention. Conduct some kind of a strike He wouldn't hit it right tween the eyes; he'd just squeak by, against not being offered a job.”

"Like what?" Dave asked.

on a which, according to Dave, was satis-

"Like crawling out factory enough. For four years Dave and Rufus had been roommates and for ledge high above the street and pre- four years Rufus had been watching tending to commit suicide."

Dave was aghast. He thought Rufe Dave barely squeak by. But Dave had been voted the most popular man in was crazy. Nobody would give them his class. He was good-looking. He a job for pulling a crazy stunt like got things he wanted. For two years that.

By Stanley Cordell

window

The next day Rufe climbed out on he had been captain of the varsity football team. He had made his letter the ledge beneath his hotel bedroom Oh, Dave window. Someone saw him and shout- called. They in track and baseketball.

The police were was a big man, all right. Rufus was ed. proud to be his roommate.. But being came up to his room and ordered him a plugger he marvelled how Dave got back. Rufe told them he was on strike for a job. If they tried to. bring him the things he wanted.

back he'd jump.

"It isn't only the chemistry exam,

The fire department came. Report- The street Dave. It's next summer after gradua tion. You'll have to get a job then. ers and camera men came.

below became jammed with spectators.. Rufe on in horror. Jobs are scarce."

"There

are plenty of jobs for the They looked right man, son. I'll get a job. Don't wouldn't come down. He stayed there you worry about me." Dave draped all day and half the night. Then he his coat over his arm. He hesitated, was promised a job, and he climbed one hand on the door knob. He was a back in through the hotel window. handsome figure, a picture of self- Rufe went to jail for that little esteem and self-assurance. "A chap stunt. But he was out in five days be like you always makes me laugh, Rufe, cause public sentiment demanded it. Pluggers. Book worms. Wait'll we get During his time in jail he was offered out of college. You'll wish then you two dozen jobs. He investigated them

all and took the one he wanted. hadn't wasted your time."

Later he met Dave. "I thought it In college you got Rufe smiled thinly, replaced his glasses and turned back to the open all over, Davé. book on his desk. "Perhaps," he said. what you wanted because you were "Things do happen that way in the self-assured. You knew you were equip. ped to cope with any kind of a party books you read.”

Now that we're out the They were graduated in June. After or contest. commencement they parted, promising situation is reversed. I feel that I can to write, to let each other know what cope with any kind of job, if given a chance, because of what I learned in kind of work the other was doing....

Rufe returned to his home in Phila- college. That's why I had the courage. delphia. He wasted no time hunting to. pull that stunt, and you didn't."

(Released By The Associated News- for a job. He wanted to get placed with a construction company. That was papers.)

what he was his line. That was equipped to do. The first week he people called on all the construction

I who were listed on the card his Uncle Raymond had given him. They were kind, considerate and very sorry. But they had rio opening.

SPANISH PLOT IN PORTUGAL DENIED "Fantastic Report"

Rafe wasn't particularly disappoint- ed. He had called on those men as much to please his uncle as anything.. He had more faith in his own ability. He knew he could make himself-valu The Portuguese Embassy in Lon- able to any concern because of his don categorically denied that there knowledge. He still felt that by plug was any truth in the report of a ging along he'd get the kind of job he Spanish plot against Portugal, as

wanted.

So all during the hot summer Rufe stated in a London evening news- hunted for a job. But there was none, papers. An Embassy official de- Those few companies that had openscribed the report as “absolutely

There

fantastic.": Ings wanted experienced men' were no jobs for young college gra- duates, Rufe was a little bewildered The friendly relations between his Portugal and Gen. Franco were re- because he knew he could earn money if given a chance. He had a called by the spokesman, who pointed fund of knowledge.

Once or twice during those long out that it was only on March 17 months Rufe thought of Dave Had that the Treaty of Friendship and Dave succeeded in landing a position? Non-Aggmasion was signed be In spite of himself Rufe résented the

thought of Dave obtaining work when tween the two countries,