Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What do you wish to name your daughter?" asked the city hall clerk. "Gaullette," proudly replied the French father. "Impossible!" cried the fonctionnaire. "That is not a name but a profession of political faith. Pick another...
...silver silk tie. With just 15 members of the families looking on, the vows took precisely ten minutes. Said Judge Frederick Strong, who performed the ceremony: "It was just a little longer, a little more elaborate and, I hope, a little more meaningful than one in the city clerk's office...
...hands of human sorters who faced 72 billion pieces of mail last year. To speed up sorting, the Post Office Department is pinning its hopes on a new electronic gadget: an optical scanner that reads machine-printed addresses and sorts mail 15 times faster than the most efficient postal clerk. Introduction of the device, says Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, "is as much an historical event as the issuance of the first U.S. stamp in 1847 or the first city delivery of mail...
...musical career pounding out the piano accompaniment for the choir of Chicago's Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, moved on to the Chicago Musical College, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take a job as a clerk in a record shop. Soon he shelved the classics to form a jazz trio with a pair of high school chums-Bassist Eldee Young and Drummer Isaac ("Red") Holt. For the next ten years, the trio roamed the outskirts of success as virtuosos of the expectable in a trade that doted...
...science and wanted to stay in Cambridge. He really wanted to be a professor, perhaps because his father taught in a medical school. "But I felt inadequate compared to him. Law was something a person of normal intelligence could do." Riesman went on to become Louis Brandeis's law clerk before starting teaching at the University of Buffalo...