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Somehow, the party went on and on. Holdup men knocked over the front office from time to time (and once murdered a clerk), a waitress was arrested for peddling narcotics; the switchboard was taken over by a telephone operator who claimed to read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes...
...assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good record, had the expert and ready assistance of Specialist Fifth Class George B. Huller, at 23 a six-year man with an equally fine record, on duty as a personnel clerk at division headquarters. Theirs was the job of filling in the names when Pentagon orders called for overseas billets by classification, and Huller's initials were all that was needed to make the orders effective. Coogan collected $10 to $200 from each would-be overseas soldier, and Huller...
With the low rents in Vatican apartments and the rock-bottom prices at Vatican City stores, this will give the Vatican citizen a considerable advantage over his Italian peer. A Grade 10 clerk in any Italian ministry, for instance, earns about $104 a month, minus about $11.20 deducted for taxes and social security. His Vatican opposite number will presumably get $147.20 a month without deductions, will pay 20% to 50% less for food and clothes...
...that Christian Democratic ranks were solid. Even Liibke's rival. Socialist Candidate Carlo Schmid, 62, hoped Lubke would be elected on the first ballot to save everybody time and effort. Delegates in the humid hall wandered out to the lobby for sausages, beer and soft drinks as the clerk droned alphabetically through the list. Liibke made it on the second ballot...
Poking about Hanuabada Village, a Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...