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THE CHINA MAIL - MONDAY, AUGUST."4, *1952,′
*
IDEAL BOSS?
NO
G
New York. OOD secretaries are
rare on both sides. of the Atlantic
First article in a new series
spotlighting some of the most
SUCH BIRD!" popular jobs for women in U.S.
By Kay Murray
rarer, if anything, impatient to perpetrate with such callers as the big two-roomed apartment, in America than elsewhere, some deathless prose, after 'Duke of Windsor. and rewards are correspon- an unexpectedly brief lunch, dingly higher.
The Ideal Boss is in the opinion of most American secretaries an even rare bird. In fact "There ain't no such," retorts Miss Sally Coles, in moments of de- pression.
None the less, she has stayed with her present em- ployer, the general manager a leading American of news service, for ten years,
I doubt whether anything short of an earthquake would pry the loose.
"Mind you," she will say, "I think it's 'sheer weak. mindedness.
"No one ought to stay in any one job longer than five or six years. But where elne would I start at £30 a week ?"
to find the office empty.
"AB a matter of fact," confesses his secretary, "the first time he telephoned, I nearly had heart failure.
A
On her £30 a week salary, Columbia University, turns cul "Here the Consulting Surgeon Sally, who is probably 38 some of the finest nurses in the is likely to sit on the edge of but looks 38, lives extreme country and 71 percent of the bed and call the patient by them stay on at Presbyterath her first name,” suld Miss ly well, particularly as her as a member,
Grier.
shared with her sister, has which each accommodates only explain
In its spacious, sunny wards, "But he'll take the trouble to to her exactly what unique pre-war ceiling 17 bods, the Hospital in 1951 her treatment is doing, which I rent of 215 a month. treated 82,630 bed patients, and think is better than the Britisti another 45,000 out-patients in way of keeping patient-and She spends less on clothes its clinler.
offer the nurses----in the dark." than you might expect. Bhe believes in tollored lines for Harkness Pavillon, its pelynle Its only disadvantage. Is. that.... office workers, and her most ex- wing, has housed such famous patients sometimes develop de- "When he said: "This is travagant recent purchase was patients as King Gustav et fusions of grandeur and gu the Duke of Windsor, I reproduction of a Jacques Fath Sweden, the Duchess of Wind- around boasting to friends that sor, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, “my EKG (electrocardiograph) But on the other hand, gasped and muttered: Yes, grey flannel sult at £24, 105,
was successful yesterday.". Sally not many employers stand air-I mean your Majesty, is extravagant with and Babe Ruth, their secretaries twenty-five just hold on, and fled for spend 18 shiling on a meal with to £7 a day, while round the
lunches and taxis,” and, will Here rooms cost £5. 15%, Od, LUCKY ONE shilling lunches a couple of the boss."
a girl friend without wining a clock" nursing may cost an- times a month.'
hair of her home-permed, well- other £14 a day.
BRIDGET arcomed head,
He may and does--start dictating letters at, 5 p.m. which will keep her until 7.80.
SHE SAVES
Yet, contrary to all Holly-
conventions And where else would you wood
about find the paragon who ac employer- secretary rela- tually celebrated the tenth tions, Sally, while on ex-DUT though
her personal year of his secretary's tremely cordial terms with finances are a bit scrambled, career with £3 108. a week her boss, knows better she believes in putting away a bit every month and counten- rise and handed her a Valen- even after ten years to
ances, though with a rather wry tine of real orchids on smoke uninvited in his face, the
voluntary deduction office, although she will puff from her salary of a £7 Bavings February 147
like a chimney in her own. Bend a month.
This recopily permitted her 'She knows exactly how to spend a six-months vacation much Mr S. is behind with in Europe, and neatly disposed his taxes, and what he paid of £600.
She would like to buy a tele for his wife's sable coat.
vision set, but says: "Thon Ed LIVES. WELL spend even less time in reading than I do now, so what's the
For his part, "Mr S." is no doubt also well aware that he is lucky to have a level-headed assistant who can handle so many varied assignments.
These have included
:
A STICKLER
wheedling a couple of seats BUT it la doubtful whether use?"
Mr S. has any idea She will frequently grumble: IT is true that "Mr S.," as for "South Pacific" from a
she calls her employer, is reluctant press agent for how his secretary spends There is no future in this job," apt to lose his temper-he's two visiting firemen arrang- her leisure time, or what for Mr S., as head of a
news agency,
belleves rather an old newspaperman and a ing for his 14-year-old-son to are har interests, outside armly in a secretary being
secretary rather than an embryo stickler for accuracy-if he meet the star players at a the office.
journalist.
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T
THE NEW PATTERN OF CELEBRITY
By Drusella Beyfus
busy
to
appreciates
the
doctor nurse relationship,
In spite of its huge size, how-' too. ever, there is no cold imperson- “It's so nice to be called. Miss niity about the Centre.
Grier instead of 'Nurse, sho "Kindliness and friendliness- sald. This is regarded by the these are the qualities we try American medical profession as establish at Presbyterian 3, perfectly normal tribute to a Hospital," I was told by the colleague and makes, they think, Acting Director of Nursing, Mis for better nursing. Margaret Eliot, whose efficiency Bridget's salary as head nurse and dry wit have been a main is £90 a month, less about £14 stay of the Hospital for thirty for
incomo years.
and social security. "Being ill puts a person She is one of the lucky 235 under a great nervous strain,"
who have an she went on. I think the most Harkness Hall, the
apartment, In important
graduate singin quality nurse should possess is that of a
„‚nurses' `residenze, She pays £11,78, for one-roomed apart- good
personality."
ment-with free gas and electri- city that would cost her "esp INCREDIBLE
elsewhere.
A
under
a
В
tax
qualify conspicuously. She gets four weeks' holiday 'S
owned by Irish-born Bridget a year, and works an eight-hour, Grier, a head nurse on Medkal ave-day week. Floor Nine.
If she is in the Hospital pays wide-spaced eyes expenses Slim, with
and puts her
In the her white cap and a luxurious Harkness. Pavilion, Yet Sally knows that if she quiet galety, about her, Miss along with the great and the handed in her notice there are Grier, has something that wealthy, where she gets exactly would make you very glad to the same a la carte food and a lot of things she would miss.
Among them would be the see her if you were tossing nursing attention.- first-night tickets, which the restlessly in a strange hospital Drama Desk couldn't
Interes (medical, students) the bed. use, the
and nurses mix. fo a way that. which her sometimes in
Thirty-year-old Bridget train would cause scandalized horror of London's conserva-
Vitro
and the occasional ed at Middlesex Hospital, but in some dinner
with fier boss for no
two years ago the travel urge tivé hospitala: other reason than that he is hit her and she came to stay feeling benevolent
with a slater in New York. and has a couple of hours to spare.
the sume, grieves Perfect Secretary the Voice of America Behind-The-Type- writer
the
wish porno Im
would ask me to marry him.
"I suppose it all sounds very glamorous, but I'd trade it all. for a husband and a suburban
en Long Island and house couple of kids."*
"I'd heard that Presbyterlan was one of the finest hospitals
in the country," she told me, in a voice that had a hint of the County Mayo brogue now and
then.
"You can't be 'old-fashioned about it," Miss Eliot told me, "particularly in this country."
MARRY
TO
HERE are dances and beach parties, free tickets to the theatre and opera, tecanis "After doing three months on the Ceatre's courts and the School of horseback riding by the Hudson Nursing I was appointed to the for those who want it.
obstetrics in right
on in, Penny came Paria, Penny goes too. "The general |HEfrat General's Lady rockons that it doesn't looks as if wearing a mint, a tussore dress, to make it her busi- he's come to fight a war with a and a big hat that tickled the
wife on his arm," sald an officer photographers, ness to splash about at headquarters.
But noon Penny made it plain in the limelight is Penny,
that she was keeping her pretty
sensational, but she kept to the commonplace when it camo to making comments.
Pony's fight into fame is o
THE NURSE
Medical Floor.
the third Mrs Ridgway, wife heavily escorted enterprise. She mouth closed. She might look what was originally a equivalent to R
of the Supreme Allied Com- is usually accompanied by three mander in Europe. Penny guardians who make Penny's has made a celebrity of the way up far easier. They are General's Lady. She has
shaped up a star part out
of a traditionally dull role,
Skilled Line
་
-baseball-park and-a-favou rite stamping ground for Re- vivalist Billy Sunday now atenda Columbia Medical Con,
ダ
next year.
phe of long-established hos
"Four months Inter they "I'm going to miss it,” sald made me a Head Nurse-that's Bridget, thoughtfully.
Sister. In-
Sho mot hor flance, 'An credible, isn't 117.
The main difference, I think, is getting married next month.
American, at a beach party, and between British and American hospitals is the Doctor-Patient and Doctor-Nurse relationship," she went on.
Amerikans would slight case of hysteria at
ward of 4 silence-stricken British hospital as the Consult ing Surgeon sweeps in, followed deferentially by house doctor, of sister' and 'nurses.
The ladies of the Press, tre which will be having its
and liftle black flowery hats frocius, listened attentively...
2x Hospital
The Elegant Guardian, Mrs Q: What did she miss most pitals integrated into the Centre, Fenny has washed the starch M. Biddle, wife of Brigadier: A. In Japan?
is the largest voluntary hospital right out of her job. She is Biddle. She has been heard to
in the US,
It was noted solemnly. Q: How many servants have
prettier and younger than most say at parties when asked to A "My flower decoration other general wives, and she
for pose
pictures with Mrs classes" makes sure her assets are beaut- Ridgway..."I'd rather not, my fully shown off.
dress would show up you know." When she puts on a hat even
The Plump and Jolly Guar your Montgomery Field - Marshal notices it. "My dear, it really is dian, Mr Gandather, wife of the
A.: "I haven't had time toi most sweet" he said about a little general, who nearly got General
latest job. She count." straw member she wore recently, Ridgway's
Penny catches on wherever she keeps the party spirit moving odd evening the goes. Her nickname is always during the used. Nobody calls her by the generals' wives spend at home. proper one, Mary. Pletures of Penny appear in the
The Professional papers wherever she stops.
Mrs Burrows Mathews, whose
is attached to Ridg Fenny is the general's pearl husband
civilian
Mrs staff When the general takes a trip, way's
Mathows keeps up a skilled line In promotion for Penny,
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One flowery hat, was bitten pink by this. She murmured appreciatively: "She hasn't had Guardian, to count them.".
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Christian Dior, the celebrated
the
Its School of Nursing, unde
Faculty
of Medicine
“It's a tremendous feeling to be part of this place. There's such a wonderful spirit about it.” - have a Presbyterian will miss Bridget,
the too.
and
"A wonderful person fine nurse," I heard on all sides. "Everybody likes her."
(MORE TOMORROW)
THE TURKISH CAVALRY IS
TOUGH, ROUGH, RUTHLESS
Istanbul.
From Henry Thody
CC L-LAH, lsh, lahl" aro
A screamed the horse
.
Three of Turkey's 19 divisions are the men free to, go to, the
horse-borne. The Turks nearest village.', have stubbornly rolpined their
Toughness is the keynote of dress designer, sent his chosen men as they swept down the especially machine mined Unit- their army life. Rough Iving "Mrs Ridgway la o very real emissary, the salon manageress barren hillside. Wicked-ed States efforts to disbond it. conditions, hard training, plain food, few amenities-andteil- and wonderful person," she told to pay respect to the General's looking curved swords flash- A high-ranking officer at pence month pay! me, "she held responsible jobs Lady. She was a woman of before her marriage and, do paralysing elegance who reduced ed in the early morning Turkish General Hentiqimeters you know,
is the only everyone there to limp off-the-sunshine. world
to be peggers, in the Woman
by Eva fabulously entertained Peron!"
sho
Press Party
I
A
told me "They keep saying the bayonet 褪 out-of-date.". But
1. saw a recruit. `fall off. his was watching the 43rd when British troop make a bent low over bars Ridgway, Turkish Cavalry Division on sale et try and ple- doing down there?" The un- Tall, and in Dior's black, she Regiment of the crack First bayonet share the enemy rubs, horse. The officer galloped up charge is even more and shouted: "What are you and murmured a few well normal morning training a chosen words: Monsieur Dior rock attacic against invading unit and you see what I happy looking soldier, sprawled
.. at your service...ca Soviet forces. chanted, madame, to see you
* our salon your home.
This was a cavalry ́ ́charge, Turkish style. And it was tough
very tough!
On the tick of 7.30 the op pointed hour of departure. the General's Lady "гose
please, a photographer ploaded.
on his back, answered: "I dis mounted, air. I'm just about to poured Last week, Penny
mount, again." By tradition no higher than ever into the bright what no
Watching She did
the cavalry I saw one ever falls off a horse in-the lights.
Turkish cavalry-he what he meant. These feathery
Just
"din general's wife has over dono
mounts." before,
She held a personal
For centuries the blood-meren carry and use latest mo
bazocicas, recoilleas rocket rifles, The cavalryman carries dh Press party.
to thirsty, fearless Turkish cavalry, mortara, machine-guine. Every from ration for his horse and 1cave': One more picture, invoking the name: of Anth, The place chosen was the
fets do not scare the the saddle, even down to spare nearest thing country club that cance can picture of Mrs Ridgway pointing from the sands of arabla to the restrained, under-realisie horseshoes and change of wool- to an, American: Ho asked if he could take a were the dread of Europe as the knaza CATĪCA Prkosice, ‚' Even low- himself, and is self-contained in
groat Ottoman Empire stretched
baille conditions. offer (notlees written in English to an "Ike" brooch in diamerica.
len underwear, ge gates of Vienna, only, a barbecue in the garden,
The men are all volunteers. American For a moment Penny looked.... and murals of the
Everywhere in the 43rd Regi- Peasants sons from the moun ment, there is Immense spirit the as if she had singed herself in civil was to decorate
taling near the Soviet frontier, restaurant), It is situated nice the limelight. "Oh no," the ly near allled beadquarters, sald, frowning.
normal dally
In three wars against the they find their two-year army and good humour. Everyone Ruslans the Crimes, the war Ho a holiday compared with gives the impression of enjoying struggle the hard existence. Even its "Now, now; no politics," said of 1877, the 1014-11-the Tuw their Just on the appointed hour.
alash the heads off straw- the Ridgways mighty Chrysler Mrs Mathews. loudly, attempting dish cavalry charged Husadari with nature,
stuffed dummies, there are broad - tho, Russians poaltions-and over with car crunched along the gravel to amooth things ov
furqu
A day in their life begins at gelas on the mahogany tanned and flot drive of the Country Club de la
five o'clock. From: "then" until faces of there Turks.. Nouve, Vilon's cur-Seine.
cold-bloodod aleira out at ning they have only Before I visited the regiment Today those
Mt Mathews officiated; looft ing n.picture of cool crispory in
|a grey nylon dress; j
camroller,
It was the nearest thing to a diplomatic, Incident.
thels game two from hours. The rest of
But Mis Ridgway was cooK WATTIDES, with
ground. She frightful battle-cry and flashing their sixteen-hour day is spent a British tank officer told me.. back on wało climbed into her, mink A into curved bladed, are at the sex-looking after their mounts, riding "if there chape over catch the the American bar, tralled by vice of the West--gil there aro Hard learning tactics, learning enemy in the narrow denies in boucher, moru (foursome to handle 10 different infantry Eastern –Turkey when i tanka She welcomed the Supreme, the two good gumedians, the noi Corániunder's " \- wZDec- *lado, wives of the generals and sped troops. In the North Atlantic weapons and taking educa- are useless, it will be massacre
tlodial clažicy. Only on Sunday.', 'I soo what he meant. - sweetle; oome,eight on in." name passage
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