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Arabian Nights. Frederick Clegg never admits to a crude thought! He is one of England's New People, the upwardly mobile lower classes. A post office clerk, he has a harmless hobby: collecting butterflies. He lives in his dreams, especially one about a pretty girl, Miranda Grey, who is everything he is not: gay, warm and perceptive. "The dream began where she was being attacked by a man," Clegg thinks to himself in his flat, monotonous manner, "and I ran up and rescued her. Then somehow I was the man that attacked her, only I didn't hurt...
...aboard a diesel. Before the Alton line switched from steam locomotives, Gilbert laid down his shovel and moved into a new career as a fulltime union official. Elected president of Lodge 707 in 1931, he moved on to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cleveland in 1942 as a clerk, promptly started a climb up the ladder of union bureaucracy by wrestling with a 90-day crash course in shorthand so that he could be come a stenographer (he still uses shorthand to take voluminous verbatim notes at meetings). Blessed with an adhesive memory for names and faces, he firstnamed...
...next day's 36-hole playoff, the combatants were a study in contrast. Tall (6 ft. 1½ in.) and tightlipped, Charles acted just like the bank clerk he once was; stumpy and waggish, Rodgers swapped wisecracks with the gallery. The American's grin turned to a grimace as Charles one-putted eleven of the first 18 holes and took a three-stroke lead. He then picked up another five strokes in five holes and breezed to an eight-stroke victory. "I must have demoralized him," said Charles...
...seeded Roy Emerson in a mara thon quarterfinal. McKinley routed Bungert, 6-2, 6-4, 8-6. Said the German: "I was tired. Tired from those five-set matches earlier. And tired from watching McKinley run." In the finals, Chuck came up against lanky Fred Stolle, a Sydney bank clerk who had beaten him four out of six times in previous matches. Trying to blow McKinley off the court with his powerful cannonball serve, the Aussie got the shock of his life. "He knocked it down my throat," groaned Stolle. "In the end, I didn't know where...
...case involved a rather innocent variety of gun-running. C. Murray Sawyer clerk of the court, described Miss Polansky and her friends as "gun-crazy kids" who bought machine guns and other weapons for their collections and to use for target practice. They unwittingly ran afoul of Federal law when they took some of the guns across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border...