Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reservations clerk at the Holiday Inn on Mass Ave said yesterday that the hotel was "definitely sold out." He added that it has been booked since last year, when the hotel started accepting reservations for this year's Commencement...
...editor Abe Rosenthal sits like Jehovah on his throne, flashing thunderbolts from his fingertips at any lower-echelon staffer who incurs his disfavor. Former Crimson president Richard Meislin '75 snagged a Times job right out of college as Rosenthal's copyboy--bottom of the ladder that runs: copyboy-news clerk-reporter trainee-reporter--and rose like a Saturn V. rocket through the ranks. He now works as Albany burean chief, possibly the youngest bureau chief in the Times' history...
...Thorpe, are you guilty or not guilty?" The clerk's loud, unemotional voice carried across the small, airless courtroom to the oak and glass-paneled dock. The tallest of the four defendants, a somber figure in a dark gray suit, stood uncertainly. When it came, the response was low and fatigued: "Not guilty." With that, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, once a rising star of British politics, last week went on trial in London's Old Bailey criminal court for conspiracy and incitement to murder...
Opening the morning mail in Cloud Lake, Fla., Town Clerk Dorothy Gravelin discovered that the Federal Government had designated the tiny municipality (pop. 136) a "major disaster area." Gravelin was perplexed. "Everything here looked fine," she said. She phoned Liz Pattison, Florida coordinator in the U.S. Office of Revenue Sharing, who told her that the disaster must have been the severe crop freeze in January 1977. Cloud Lake has no farms and only a few backyard orange trees...
Burger's sleuthing struck some court watchers as consistent with his deep concern about press coverage of the court. "He intensely dislikes the press," says Georgetown University Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson, a former Supreme Court law clerk. "He is convinced that the way he runs things is right, but when put in a critical light it unnerves him." ABC's O'Brien, 35, a lawyer who worked as a television reporter in New Orleans before joining the network two years ago, may have scored an unmistakable coup in revealing the two decisions, but some journalists wondered whether...