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...believe that he had authorized it. Informal cells of worried activists were forming in the capital. One such group was operating out of a bakery in downtown Warsaw. If any of the cell's dozen members failed to show up at least once every three days, the sales clerk was to alert one member, who would pass the word along...
DIED. Thomas Corcoran, 80, savvy Washington lawyer and lobbyist who helped shape Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive...
About 67,000 of the openings were in clerical and sales positions, and 49,000 were in the service sector. In greatest demand were auto mechanics, clerk typists, restaurant cooks, materials handlers, secretaries and waitresses. The job openings knew no geographic bounds; employment in those fields was generally available throughout...
...Brimberry. Brimberry, 38, joined the firm in 1973 as an $8,000-a-year clerical worker. Five years later, he was promoted to senior vice president in charge of operations, a post he snared when his friend and lawyer, James Massa, bought controlling interest in the firm. The onetime clerk quickly became a high roller, building a home worth some $800,000 in a St. Louis suburb and making frequent gambling jaunts to the casinos of Nassau and Nevada...
...pours forth impassioned speeches, while Marat, played by Antonin Artaud, looks as if he has walked out of David's painting complete with a towel around his head. In these types of scenes the depth of Gance's vision is most evident. It is comic, for instance, when the clerk La Bussiere saves people from the guillotine by eating their dossiers. It is absurd in the garish and frenzied Ball of the Victims after the Terror. And behind it all are the masses, the People. Time and again, Gance says, the People are being prepared for Napoleon...