Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sears man for 38 years, Telling started as a receiving clerk at the company's store in his home town of Dan ville, Ill. (pop. 39,000). "I was a clerk until I thought I'd die," he remembers...
...outsiders are not better," said Mary J. Moore, a deputy clerk in superior court who has been an usher, sung in the choir and played a colonist. "They're just more professional." Mary's husband Frank has worked backstage, and her daughters Betty, Janie and Gracie have all had roles...
Perhaps two dozen or more longtime managers, editors and writers could become instant millionaires when the transaction is approved by the staff and the Labor Department. Editor Marvin Stone, 60, and Managing Editor Lester Tanzer, 54, will each collect about $5 million; employees such as Circulation Clerk Evelyn Fox (43 years seniority) and Chauffeur Obadiah Person (39 years) will collect $400,000 or more...
...Phoenix last week to elect a leader, many observers looked upon the outcome as foreordained. Well before the voting began, stolid, shrewd William P. Thompson, 65, a lawyer from Wichita, Kans., sometimes regarded as the pope of the Presbyterians, was the odds-on favorite for the post of Stated Clerk (chief administrator). But on the fourth round of voting, Dark Horse James E. Andrews, 55, a droll, self-deprecating minister reared in Whittenburg, Texas, emerged in an astonishing upset as the man who will try to redirect the declining fortunes of the Presbyterian Church over the next four years...
Prior to last week's balloting, a special nominating committee had considered 59 possible candidates for Stated Clerk. After winnowing the group to 13 finalists, the panel came up with a surprising suggestion: it proposed the Rev. Patricia McClurg, an administrator with Andrews in Atlanta. The 45-year-old McClurg would have been the first woman to lead a major Christian church. But her candidacy was quickly squashed by the General Assembly's own nominating committee, which passed over McClurg without explanation and announced a slate of Thompson and Andrews. Perhaps, remarked McClurg, the committee felt that...