Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nineteen nationally known Protestant and Jewish leaders-among them, retired Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, retired Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake. Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-signed an opinion that "it would be most unfortunate for a major church to press its own interests in a way that would threaten the strengthening of our basic educational system." Dr. Robert E. Van Deusen of the National Lutheran Council told the House subcommittee that a religious group with its own high school system "should provide the necessary financial support, thus...
...computer operation is the 69-year-old firm of Goodbody & Co.. which is now phasing in an RCA 501 computer. Says Managing Partner Harold P. Goodbody: "We can't give good service today unless we 'automate.' " Goodbody. who joined the firm as a securities clerk in 1927, still remembers how during the heavy trading in 1929 he had to work straight through every other night for months to keep up with the paper work. The new automated systems have changed all that; with only small amounts of overtime. Goodbody, like other automated houses, will keep...
...Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts it into one of the variously colored grooves in a conveyor belt to route it to the right clerk. Within minutes the order is telephoned to one of Goodbody's brokers on the Exchange floor. On normal trading days a buyer in Palm Beach can have his order executed in New York and get notification within five minutes. At Goodbody's home office the details...
...Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience is led to think that Shlink is simply a capitalist villain, but halfway through the play...
...office party, or so it seems, and the mail clerk has had just enough vodka and cranberry juice to get up and pulsate with song. But the office is really Manhattan's subterranean Copacabana, one of the best-known bomb shelters in the world, and the mail clerk is little Bobby Darin, a $350,000-a-year corporation with ducktail by Lilly Dach...