Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks (in New York, most employees who quit voluntarily are ineligible for jobless benefits). Unemployment officials insisted that she visit prospective employers regularly. But her former boss had deliberately made Caroline difficult to place by saying that her relatively high salary was for work performed as a file clerk instead of a secretary. That suited Caroline fine. Says she: "I needed a vacation. Besides, I got away with it only because my company let me. I just didn't want to work, that...
...week. "With a heavy heart," the Ohio Democrat announced his withdrawal from the race for a 15th term in the House. The Delilah in his downfall was, of course, Elizabeth Ray, 33, who disclosed last May that she had been kept on the Congressman's payroll as a clerk but had served mostly as his mistress. In June, Hays entered a hospital in Barnesville, Ohio, suffering from an overdose of drugs, and shortly thereafter he was stripped of his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. Now facing probes by the FBI and a federal grand jury, plus a hearing...
...granny glasses gave it away, but otherwise there was hardly a hint that the man with the short haircut, dark suit, narrow tie and starched white shirt was not a bank clerk but John Lennon, 35, former Beatle, sometime writer, and culture hero without portfolio. He was wearing the straight threads for a solemn occasion, namely, the successful resolution of his 4½-year struggle to obtain permanent-resident status in the U.S. After such assorted character witnesses as Gloria Swanson, Geraldo Rivera and Isamu Noguchi testified to Lennon's public spirit and artistic significance, Immigration Judge Ira Fieldsteel...
...known of Sabatini's reclusive life. The son of an Italian operatic tenor and an English soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within a year he had brought out his first novel, The Suitors of Yvonne...
Another British couple, Brother and Sister Runners Ian (5,000 meters) and Mary (1,500 meters) Stewart of Birmingham, has worked as hard as Anne and Mark. Home-town boosters raised money so that Ian, a factory employee at Birmingham Small Arms Co., and Mary, a clerk at the telephone office, could devote last month to high-altitude training at Colorado Springs, Colo...