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After the anticipation of the pre-invasion weeks, the great battle "seemed almost anticlimactic," recalls Kathleen Frost, who as a clerk typed up some of the D-day orders. Today the beaches, lanes and fields of southern England are quiet again, ever-present plaques the prime mementos of the frenzied activity of 40 years ago. American ex-G.I.s sometimes visit, walk those familiar streets, stay the night. But the atmosphere cannot be recreated: the girls, the buddies, the excitement, all are gone. The old soldiers take solace in memory, and in the wonderful glow of victory...
...role, Winans profited relatively modestly from the scam. Though Felis suggested that Winans might be paid $25,000 for every column that benefited the speculators, he actually received a total of only $31,000. All the checks were made payable to David J. Carpenter, a former Journal news clerk and Winans' roommate. Carpenter, who is also charged in the suit, is said to have made about $4,400 in trading profits...
Another request by the Soviets nearly resulted in breach of national security. The U.S. was about to send over some equipment as part of a technological "exchange." At the last minute a clerk discovered that one of the instruments was used as an aid in the hardening of missile silos. If America makes such magnanimous gestures to what many perceive as its ideological antithesis, it is frightening to wonder how much this country facilitates its allies rise to economic supremacy...
Dreben, in general, likens his administrative duties to those of "a glorified clerk." His appearance seems to bear out this characterization. Short and balding at 56 years of age. Dreben sits behind a huge desk in his Emerson Hall office, surrounded by swarms of paper, manuscripts and envelopes--many of them stamped "Confidential...
...Street" writers before he was fin two weeks ago. At that time, the paper said, Winans admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that he had leaked items from upcoming columns to investors. Among those who may have benefited was David J. Carpenter, 34, a former Journal news clerk and Winans' homosexual lover. The two men share an apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...