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...from Envelopes. A white-thatched bank veteran of 58 who came to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street directly from secondary school in Wands-worth, a lower middle-class section of London, O'Brien worked his way up in 39 years from clerk to chief cashier and deputy governor. Harold Wilson picked him to succeed Lord Cromer, who left at the end of his five-year term to resume his partnership in the famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented...
What made the marriage even more of a surprise was that, according to the records of the Wayne County clerk, it had been celebrated by Jesuit Thomas Blackburn, chaplain at the university. Although none of the parties to the unusual wedding would talk about it, the evidence was clear that Father Cross, who had been on leave since January teaching at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, came back to Detroit last May to marry Miss Renaud, a nurse who had voluntarily left the Sisters of Mercy three years ago. Still refusing to confirm or deny his marriage, Father Cross...
Died. Norman Baillie-Stewart, 57, British traitor twice over, a onetime army lieutenant who served five years at hard labor for passing secret information to the Germans in 1932, later went to Berlin to offer his services to the Nazis and spent World War II as a minor broadcasting clerk (nothing more because the Germans thought he was a spy); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
John E. Powers, clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court and former president of the Massachusetts Senate, was Collins' unsuccessful opponent in the bitter mayoralty contest of 1959. Collins' slogan then was "Stop Power Politics...
...fidgeting over the latest returns. At 8:15 p.m., a young campaign worker hung up the phone and exultantly pounded a fist on the table. "You won!" the youth cried. "You won!" Amerson leaned back and laughed with relief. By a 387-vote margin, the stocky ex-postal clerk had be come the first Alabama Negro to win a Democratic nomination for sheriff since the misty days of Reconstruction...