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Last week the word leaked out that slim, taciturn Audrey Harper has been working as a clerk-typist at Field's since mid-July as the store's first Negro employee (Dowdy was not hired), and that five other Negroes had followed her on the payroll. Mrs. Harper, 26, a high-school graduate with three years of business-school training, said: "It's a great achievement for Negroes, but I don't think it's anything to talk about too much. Fuss makes trouble, not progress...
...never got more than elementary schooling, and went to work at 16 as a bookkeeper's apprentice. When revolution swept Mexico, he joined the army and served eight years as a paymaster and paperwork man for generals. After the revolution, he served 13 years as a government clerk, rising finally to the job of chief of the government's vital statistics department. Even in those low-paid years he lived on his salary. Once, when the offer of a bribe came his way, he said: "I think you have made a mistake. You have tried the wrong...
When Alfred Hall was a proper, young cipher clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, he did a somewhat improper thing: he picked up a Russian girl at a performance of Swan Lake in the Bolshoi. "I brushed up against her," he said. "I apologized. We started talking. She spoke good, if academic, English and there it was." Two months later, Alf Hall and 22-year-old Clara Strumina, student of English (mostly Shakespeare) at the University of Moscow, and daughter of a late army colonel, were married...
...Edinburgh Festival, a new play by Poet-Playwright T. S. Eliot opened to advance notices that it would be crammed with as many esoteric meanings as The Cocktail Party, his 1950 hit. The Confidential Clerk seemed to say that a man is happiest if he follows in his father's footsteps instead of striking out on a new way of life. Reporters closed in on the author to find out what the play really meant. Said Eliot: "The critics have found different meanings, and the critics are never wrong. As far as I am concerned, it means what...
Voice of Experience. In New Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady . . . If I don't get along with her, I reckon...