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...bizarre figure, part Peter Pan and part Midas. His days and nights are packed with people, planes, horses, telephone calls, travel and parties. Everywhere he goes, even to address staid bankers, some of his girls accompany him. Cornfeld is ordinarily as mild-mannered and soft-spoken as a shoe clerk, but he can break abruptly into profane rages. His informality prompts all of his employees to call him Bernie. But Cornfeld's financial trailblazing has altered the investment climate of Europe and helped hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens (and perhaps a few crooks as well) to acquire...
...film adaptation of Hello, Dolly! matches Herman's contribution. Michael Crawford playing the young clerk, Cornelius Hackl, self-consciously recalls Stan Laurel. As Horace Vandergelder, the richest and meanest man in Yonkers, N.Y., Walter Matthau is doing Walter Matthau as he used to be in B pictures, moving through the production like a man with a strong distaste for all around him. As for the lead, Barbra Streisand oscillates between postures: now Mae West, now Lena Horne, now brassily elegant, now flying her Yiddishkeit...
Passion for Privacy. Numerous parallels between Antoine and his creator have invited suggestions that this is a strongly autobiographical play. The last person likely to shed light on this question is Anouilh himself. At 59, looking like an aging bank clerk, with blank blue eyes behind silver-rimmed spectacles, he makes a fetish of privacy. It was three years before the world knew that he had divorced and remarried in 1953; his telephone numbers are unlisted and frequently change; and to keep his whereabouts secret, he shuttles back and forth between an apartment in Paris, a suburban house, a place...
hiring a black recommended by Afro to serve as clerk of the site...
...Francisco saloon. Today the Bank of America is the world's largest, with assets of $25 billion, 952 Stateside branches and 94 overseas, and a creditcard system used by 25 million worldwide subscribers. Another poor boy. Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, who started out as a government clerk, is one of the pioneers of the conglomerates with his Litton Industries. It was California that sent the aerospace industry rocketing; today companies like Lockheed and North American Rockwell command a major portion of the market...