Word: clerking
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...years ago, at a mere 47, I decided that I must buy a new pair of patent leather dancing shoes-in itself a rather daring decision. Trying to make small talk with the clerk, I remarked that the shoes I was replacing had lasted ever since my college days. "Yep," he replied, "you can get a lot of wear out of this kind of shoe." And then, as he fitted the shiny new shoes to my middle-aged feet: "You're buying your last pair right...
...Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck lay in a pool of blood from a slashed wrist and arm vein, apparently inflicted with a broken beer bottle. Called by the night clerk, two patrolmen arrived in a police...
...outdone, Lyndon Johnson inspected his own troops, grandly elevated White House Executive Clerk William J. Hopkins to the newly created position of Executive Assistant to the President ("an office that truly fits the man"). Hopkins, a self-effacing, $25,025-a-year civil servant who supervises the files, mail and other administrative functions, has served every President since F.D.R...
...trim 190 Ibs., Ted Etherington looks like central casting's image of a dynamic businessman. Son of a New York public accountant, he graduated from Wesleyan in 1948, taught English there for a year, then went on to Yale Law School. Etherington served for a year as clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, later went to work for a Wall Street law firm that specialized in investment problems. Eventually he moved on to serve as secretary and vice president of the Big Board under Funston. He was named head of Amex...
...waiting at Los Angeles Airport at the hour his trio was due to perform in a nightclub near San Francisco, took his horn into a phone booth, piped his third of the music 350 miles north by wire and loudspeaker. A pretty young girl, pleading with a Chicago ticket clerk for a flight to a San Francisco wedding (her own), was surprised to hear the man in line behind her say: "Funny, I've got to get to San Francisco for a divorce-my own." Both got aboard...