Education: Students in Stores

Had fire broken out one day last week in Younkers Department Store, biggest and best known in Des Moines, Iowa, or if an old lady had dropped dead in an elevator, the job of quieting people and running things would have fallen not to Younkers' President Norman Wilchinski but to a high-school student named James Mills. If all the salesgirls had struck, the matter would have been in the hands not of Superintendent A. E. Fletcher but of Student John Haydon. As it was, the biggest problem for Student Mills was whether...

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