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Veteran Cambridge city clerk Paul Healy pronounced it a modern city council record...
...City clerk Paul Healy wielded the gavel when Monday's city council meeting began; the first order of business was to try to elect one of the nine councilors to take his place...
Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the walls of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...
...uncertain benefit of a Phi Beta Kappa key was impressed upon me long ago when I went on a job interview. As I waited, a clerk, who was pulling paper clips from folders, spotted my key and said, a little wistfully, "I don't wear mine any more." Neither do I. Donald A. Schelp Bellevue, Wash...
...University of Santa Clara) and out of Loyola Law School in 1955. He passed the bar exam only on his second try, yet Reagan promoted him twice more, to the California supreme court in 1972. As a justice, Clark was meticulous and efficient. Says a former law clerk: "He spent a lot of time streamlining the language in his opinions, to get rid of the 'thats' and 'whiches' and anything else superfluous." Clark, a family man with five children, loves the rural life. Preferring the bench to politics, he declined to join Reagan's presidential...