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...Thomas had decided that he was a poet and that his art would help him escape his native Swansea, Wales, and "the smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
...Today show caught fire, engulfing the centenarian in smoke, he was thinking of his job as chairman of the Globe Shipping Co. in Jersey City. "Such confusion," says Burin of his TV appearance. "I just wanted to get to work." In 1902 Burin started as a shipping clerk for the firm in Berlin, moved to London and then to its New York City branch, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1919. Still looking like a young man in his 70s, Burin reports that he smokes at least two cigars a day, has never been much for exercise and enjoys a glass...
...such cheap strategy would be to stamp "Convicted of Driving While Intoxicated" on the driver's license of anyone guilty of DWI. A DWI offender would be stigmatized whenever he writes a check at a local supermarket, or gets carded in a local bar. Nobody wants a gossipy supermarket clerk to know he drove drunk...
...giggling grocery clerk would stop him. He tells the story of his accidents and mishaps with a certain pride...
...spawns stealing, companies that specialize in investigating employee theft are much in demand. A Baltimore firm called Loss Management provides its clients with a national hot line and has solved cases with the help of office tipsters who report theft at their place of work. In one case, a clerk called the hot line when the invoices she was processing did not add up correctly. As it turned out, three top managers at the company were embezzling money to buy cocaine...