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windowed with frosted glass upon which is a gold-leaf legend as to the function and name of the tenant. Though it is not obvious, these offices vary in size according to the rank and position of it's occupant. In the very smallest office may be found Henry Jerome Detweiler, manager of Small Commercial Accounts.

Henry is typical of his environment, a rather non- descript individual, clad in a "banker's grey" suit, com- plete with vest and stomach-spanning gold watch chain-- from which hang several college keys. He habitually affects shirts with high, old-fashioned collars, and som- ber-hued ties. He is of middling height, rather slender, with his hair carefully combed to conceal his growing baldness. Because Henry is far-sighted, he wears rimless, gold-framed glasses; over which he peers questioningly whenever he has a visitor. About the only thing remark- able about Henry is his unlined, baby-pink complexion that is quite out of keeping with the rest of his person.

Henry Detweiler's career began with much promise. He had a vaunted Harvard degree in business administrat- ion and was full of drive and ambition. Not long after joining Merchant's Bank and Trust, he made a social coup by marrying J. Burton Woods' pretty daughter Ellen. With that, his future seemed assured, for Mr. Woods was Chairman of the Board of Merchant's and was not above nepotism. Whatever his motives, Mr. Woods made sure that his son-in-law received favorable assignments and he expected Henry's talents and ambition to do the rest. However, all this came to an end, when some five years later Mr. Woods uncooperatively died and Henry was left to fend for himself in the business world. The powers- that be quickly removed Henry from Accounts Receivable and passed him through a bewildering array of successively lesser departments--to Small Commercial Accounts-a position which exactly matched his small talents. One could truthfully say that Henry Detweiler was not the top- drawer material, for he was by now ambitionless, dull, dry and uninspiring. His principal contribution to the life of the concern was issuing small loans to distressed mer- chants seeking to salvage their declining grosses with a hasty cost of economy-grade paint. Henry did not mind the grinding detail of mortgages, collateral, and delin- quent accounts; nor did he mind sharing the services of

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