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...gallery floor, Foreign Affairs Committee Clerk Boyd Crawford heard the shots crack out, raced into the corridor just in time to see the first gunman emerge from the gallery, gun in hand. Crawford, an amateur marksman, lunged for the pistol, jammed his finger into the trigger guard, and with the aid of a bystander, knocked the man to the tiled floor. A page boy and three Congressmen, assisted by a crowd of outraged spectators, subdued and disarmed the other...
Came the roll call, close and tense, with the possibility that Knowland's vote might make the difference. When the clerk finished reading the names, the tally was 57 ayes, 28 noes−the necessary two-thirds...
...tenants in Trumbull Park. They got the apartment last summer partly because a state law forbids discrimination in public housing, partly because their name had moved to the head of the list of applicants-and mostly because Mrs. Howard, who signed the lease, is so light-skinned that the clerk did not recognize her as a Negro...
...Cocktail Party, the very symbol of a cocktail party, the central role of the psychiatrist, the prevailing Noel Coward morality and manners, expressed something immensely relevant to modern life; audiences might fiercely quarrel with Eliot's cure, but they could not deny the disease. But The Confidential Clerk pierces to the spirit without cutting through any flesh. There are moments of illumination, but in general the story, even where symbolic, remains absurd...
...Magic Touch. White's decisive action impressed most people in the railroad business, who had known him as a straight-talking but reserved individual with a solid record of railroading behind him. The son of Dutch immigrants, he started out as an Erie Railroad clerk when he left the Ridgewood, N.J. high school, became a division superintendent by the time he was 30. Eleven years later, in 1938, the Virginian Railway hired him away and made him a vice president. In 1941 he moved into the presidency of the ailing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, cut down heavy overhead costs...