Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination...
Insecurity Forever. At acting school and later in stock, Berman appeared in everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Charley's Aunt. Classmate Geraldine Page remembers Shelley's "potent personality, which sometimes bent the plays out of focus." As the clerk in Saint Joan, "he was so startlingly effective you thought it became almost a play about...
Ever since Florida cops caught the New Hampshire postal clerk who intended to blow himself up in Kennedy's presence (TIME, Dec. 26), the President-elect has reluctantly begun to pay more attention to the security advice of his Secret Service guards, now holds them in new esteem...
...took the Emperor's children to give the monarchy back its common touch. Crown Prince Akihito married the pretty and lively commoner, Michiko, and soon sired Prince Hiro, who was instantly Japan's favorite baby. Hirohito's daughter, Princess Suga, wed a commoner bank clerk, now whips around town shopping in her Japanese-made Cedric. Though traditionalists were horrified, the two girls became more popular than movie stars. One magazine, Ladies' Own, ran a feature story on one or the other of them every week last year but two. On an extensive good-will tour abroad...
From then on, war was declared. Sir Simon found that his company was riddled with ponderous forms. "I didn't understand some of them. Why, I couldn't be a sales clerk in my own organization." He told his staff to examine every form and ask, "Would our entire business collapse if we dispensed with this form...