In old days secretaries were men. Then came World War I and male secretaries were (1)re by women. A man’s secretary became his personal servant, charged (2)w remembering his wife’s birthday and buying her presents, taking his suits to the dry-cleaners, telling (3)l on the telephone to keep people he did not wish to speak to at bay, and, of course, typing and filing and taking shorthand. Now all this may be changed again. The computer and high technology are sweeping the office, taking with them much of the (4)ro work that secretaries did. An executive of a secretarial agency said that once office technology takes over generally, the status of the job of secretary will rise again (5)b it will involve only the high-powered work, and then men will want to do it again. There are, in (6)f , men coming onto the job market as secretaries. John Bowman is the case. He joined a national grocery chain as (7)se to its first woman senior manager. "I filled in the application (8)r and said I could do typing, and in fact I was the only applicant. The girls were reluctant to work for this young, glamorous new woman with all this power in the firm. I just thought it would be useful finding a job. It was simpler working for a woman (9)t for a man. I found she made (10)de and she told everybody what she thought. We were a team, that’s how I feel about it, not master and (11)s but two people doing different things for the (12)s purpose." Once high technology has made the job of secretary less routine, will there be a male take- over Men should beware of thinking that they can walk (13)r into the better jobs. There are a lot of women secretaries who will do the job as well as they can, not just because they can buy presents for the boss’s wife, but because they are as (14)ef and well-trained to cope not only (15)w computers, but also with men.