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Brewer, 33, was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall last year and is currently working on a Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard...
...federal bureaucrat, Hoover had thought of becoming a Presbyterian minister before he was hired by the Justice Department as a clerk in July 1917. He so blatantly cultivated an image of pious rectitude that one wit dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often...
...hectic Saturday at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a harried shoe clerk hardly noticed his latest customer as he cleared a space in a mountain of shoe boxes and settled onto his stool -- but then he could hardly believe his eyes. Presenting her dainty soles to the happy salesman was IMELDA MARCOS...
Marley and Frances Kendall have little to celebrate this Labor Day. Marley, 55, lost his job as a Four Star Bus Lines driver last May. Two months later, Frances, 45, was out of work when the state of Minnesota shut an unemployment- claims office where she had been a clerk for nearly 15 years. The double whammy has forced their son Marley Jr. to drop out of college and the Kendalls to move from their cherished lakeside home near the town of Ely to the Sunbelt to look for jobs. The prospect of uprooting is especially painful, Frances says, "when...
...beyond their control -- some plucky ex-employees do manage to get back to work. In 1988, at the age of 50, Linda Drumm lost her $20,000-a-year job as a supervisor in a dress factory in Mattoon, Ill., when the plant closed its doors. The fresh-faced clerk she encountered at a local unemployment office held out little hope for a good new job. "I hate to tell you this," Drumm recalls the young woman saying, "but you know that you're over the hill." The remark hurt her deeply, but Drumm now says, "I really owe that...