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...James M. Symes, 56, who started railroading as a train master's clerk, was elected president and chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroading has taken him to almost every town and branch line on the system: one year he spent 200 nights on sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago...
...Time-Reader AE key figure in every TIME news bureau is that highly efficient and knowledgeable girl who works under the unassuming title of secretary to the bureau chief. She is an expert in many things, from taking shorthand to running an Teletype machine. She is office manager, file clerk and general errand girl with wide contacts in the city and intimate knowledge of the files full of research. One of these indispensable staff members is Ann Stephanie Squires, secretary to TIME'S Boston Bureau Chief Jeff Wylie. Ann came to TIME in 1945 with wide political and newspaper...
...privilege of living in one of the New Deal's three Government-owned utopian "planned communities," residents had to do much of the planning themselves. Abraham Chasanow, a $1,800-a-year clerk in the Navy's Hydrographic Office, found this out soon after he moved his family into a six-room, $36.50-a-month row house in Greenbelt, Md. in 1939. For 13 years Chasanow worked hard at his civic responsibilities. His hard work eventually led to serious trouble: last July the Navy suspended him as a suspected security risk. Chasanow, now 43, decided to fight...
When Joan Greenwood opened on Broadway in The Confidential Clerk most critics were so anxious to unravel the play's meanings that they relegated Miss Greenwood to their 20th paragraphs. Shortly afterward, Audrey Hepburn came to town in a less murky production and had every reviewer reduced to ardent grovelings. It never seemed quite fair...
...Australia, are the known cases; official Washington sources hint that there are others. Try as it may, Communist propaganda cannot mutter a simple "good riddance" at the defections of such people. They know too much. Evdokia Petrov was not just a spy's wife. As an expert code clerk in her husband's espionage apparatus in Australia's Russian embassy, she knew secrets...