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...Guard, lying about his age (he was 16). After nine months, including 63 days AWOL, he was discharged as a minor. In January 1950, he was back in Denver. The next year he went to work for a manufacturer of trailer-truck equipment as a $200-a-month payroll clerk. A month later, Graham stole a batch of company checks, forged the name of an official on them, and cashed $4,200 worth in three days. Then he left on a five-state joy ride in a new convertible. Eight months later, he was arrested in Lubbock, Texas...
...Little Giant." E. H. (for Edward Henry) Harriman, the son of an impecunious Episcopal clergyman, went to work at 14 as a $5-a-week pad-shover (messenger-clerk) in Wall Street. A brilliant lad with a phenomenal memory, he studied the market, watched the rich and great of the Street in their buying. Soon he began to buy and win. At 18 he was a junior partner in an uncle's firm; in 1870, when he was 22, he had his own firm and a seat on the Exchange. Eventually, he became the "Little Giant" of Wall Street...
...place to settle down and "habituate myself to the rhythm of life." It was not until he was 35 that he felt "a spring released in my life" and he first began to write poetry. Now he looks back with pleasant reminiscence on the years as a clerk in a bones-to-charcoal factory, as British consul in Prague, as headmaster of a workingmen's school, and as head of a British education program in Czechoslovakia...
...Thompson Lusk, 54, great-grandson of Founder Tiffany. Lusk, born in Manhattan, went to Groton and Yale ('24), was coxswain on the Yale freshman crew and president of the dramatic society, once played daughter Goneril in King Lear. After college he started at Tiffany's as a clerk, worked his way steadily up to executive vice president...
Mouth Piece. In Ionia, Mich., when Bank Clerk Celia Kennedy asked a traveling man for identification when he presented a check at the Ionia National Bank, he whipped out his upper plate, pointed to his name engraved on its top, pocketed his cash...