Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Society's textbook buyer, a most competent young man, admits that he came in on the tail end of Mrs. Lessinger's conversation with the clerk at the counter and is very red-faced over the incident. After going back to his desk he refigured the price of the book in question and found he had made a mathematical error and multiplied by 80 per cent rather than 70 per cent. He admits he should have checked his figures while she was still in the store. Shortly after she left the book in question was remarked at its properly scheduled...
...PUSSYCAT. Alan Alda is an "author" (i.e., book clerk) and Diana Sands a "model" (i.e., prostitute) in this ironic version of the mating game...
...this week elected the following to its administrative board: Andrew E. Newman '66, President; James T. Hill '67, vice president and station manager of WHRB; Albert J. Kamen '67, treasurer; Joseph N. Erlanger '67, member; Martin J. Thorpe '68, general manager of Harvard Radio Recordings; Elaine R. Savitsky '68, clerk...
Chance in a Clutter. G. & W.'s power source is Chairman Charles Bluhdorn, 39, who has a hard-driving philosophy: "You have to break doors down-anybody can walk through them." A penniless World War II refugee from Austria, he began as a $15-a-week clerk in a Manhattan cotton-brokerage firm, rose to other jobs and founded his own coffee-trading office at 23. Within ten years he had made more than $1,000,000 buying coffee from the Brazilians and selling it to U.S. processors and chain stores. Casting around for a more stable business...
...hell of an engineer. But at 50, Andrea's self-centered world begins to go off the track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks to steady himself, narrowly averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that...