Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Charles Harting Percy sets out to do something, he doesn't kid around. His skyrocket rise has become folklore in the business world: at 16, he was a clerk in Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co.; at 23, a board member; at 29, president. In all this, of course, he had to have a bit of luck...
Today's catalyst for sex, at least in urban communities, is the office girl, from head buyer to perky file clerk. To many men, the office remains a refuge from home, and to many girls a refuge from the eligible but sometimes dull young men they meet in the outside world. One of the difficulties of the office affair, except for those who relish intrigue for its own sake, is the problem of sheer logistics and security. Semipublic, semipermanent affairs are still not readily condoned-or perhaps even really enjoyed-in the U.S. American men seem to have decided...
...clerk at the Varsity Liquor Store was the most skeptical of the observers. "They're putting up some good buildings, but I don't know about that one," he said...
...home the next day-divorced. From El Paso she crosses the border to Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She makes her way past bars and tacky tourist shops to the Municipal Palace, where she meets a Mexican lawyer by prearrangement, signs the great registration ledger of the clerk of the court, pays one dollar, and gets a slip of paper certifying that she is indeed...
Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part-time musician temporarily bunking with a nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name...