Word: clerking
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...trousers splitting beneath his tails. With a laugh, he flew through the rest of his act, but next day decided to take steps. He trotted over to Saks Fifth Avenue, asked the rather elegant salesman for one pair of men's nylon tricot boxer shorts, pure black. The clerk blanched, then to his own amazement discovered that the store did indeed have one pair of black nylon shorts. "Do you mind, sir, if I ask, why black?" he said. Stiffening, Ray mugged: "I, sir, am in mourning...
...parents of the youth sought to have the state name Briggs and Briggs, its proprietor and a female sales clerk in a formal criminal complaint, but Cambridge Court Judge Lawrence F. Feloney denied the complaint Wednesday after Briggs and Briggs agreed not to sell the record in the future...
Born. To Hildarene Harris, 31, Brooklyn, N.Y., practical nurse, and Lionel Harris, 31, $106-a-week postal clerk: quintuplets (four girls and a boy, one girl stillborn, the others expected to live); after taking a fertility drug following five years of childless marriage; in Brooklyn. Two days later, Maria Flores de Ortiz, 28, the wife of a Mexican farm worker, gave birth to five girls (one stillborn) in Chavarria, 65 miles from Mexico City; she already has three boys, took no drugs...
...promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...Speaker John McCormack and Majority Leader Carl Albert (under doctor's orders to ease up after last year's heart attack), in refusing to seat Adam Clayton Powell (see following story). Earlier, a Democratic caucus had flouted McCormack's wishes and voted to kick out the Clerk of the House, Ralph Roberts, a widely disliked 16-year veteran in that post...