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...people of Walsenburg saw the light. Last November they elected six of the seven women candidates-three to the top city jobs of mayor, city clerk, treasurer, and three others to the eight-member city council (where the women, though outnumbered 5 to 3 by men, usually manage to get their way because two of the men support their reforms). Taking office in January, City Clerk Doris Caine, 26, widowed mother of two children, found a disorder that shocked her womanly eyes: sheets were missing from city ledgers, texts of some city ordinances were gone, and some city financial transactions...
...public for that kind of music, and he was far too inde pendent to try to change his style. Some time before he married his wife, Harmony, he decided that rather than "starve on dissonances'' he would go into the insurance business. He worked first as a clerk at Mutual Life, later helped found the firm of Ives & Myrick, which by the time of his retirement in 1930 was the largest insurance agency in the nation. Ives saw no conflict between the life of a businessman and the life of a composer: "The fabric of existence weaves itself...
London police, themselves known as "peelers" 100 years ago,* are keeping an absorbed eye on the clubs, earnestly looking for violations of the law. But as the law works now, managers need only register their clubs with a clerk who has no authority to refuse them the right to operate. Aware of a lot of outcry at Soho's seamy skin mills, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has proposed a new licensing bill that may put the strippers out of business. Meanwhile, the clubs go on grossing nearly $6,000,000 a year. The bare market has never been...
...ancient steam-driven train from Palermo chugged out of the Sicilian hill town of Zucco-Montelepre one night last week, four masked men emerged from the shadows and hopped aboard the mail car. Guns drawn, they warned the lone mail clerk not to move or they would kill him. Ripping open mail sacks, they collected $19,000, then jumped from the train, leaving the clerk trussed up on the floor. The stationmaster back in Zucco-Montelepre's rickety railroad station, which is eerily lit by flickering oil lamps, allowed as how he had seen the men before the holdup...
...soaking up skepticism and idealism, respect for creativity and contempt for show business. His father's retreat to the tobacco shop in Montreal was soon followed by a new retreat to a government clerkship in Washington, and eventually by his return to Los Angeles, this time as a clerk for the FBI. From 2½ little Mort liked to stand behind the radio and shout through it his own version of the news. At eight he hung around radio stations, picked up discarded scripts from the floor or out of garbage cans, read them into a dummy microphone...