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...local reporting, where time was not a factor and the "resourcefulness" of the reporter led to "constructive results," New York World-Telegram and Sun Reporter Edward J. Mowery, 47. Mowery's dogged work to free an ex-dime store clerk named Louis Hoffner, who had been unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder conviction, won Hoffner a complete pardon (TIME...
...mother think she was taking a degree at the University of Texas law school, but actually Oveta got herself a job at the capitol codifying banking laws for the State Banking Commission. Later, Oveta was appointed a clerk in the legislature's Judiciary Committee, and in 1925 was selected by the speaker of the house as legislative parliamentarian for the new session. She was not yet old enough to vote. She soon became such a knowledgeable expert on parliamentary procedure that she wrote a book on the subject...
...Ross Sterling bought the Houston Post-Dispatch (later the Post) and installed as president Will Hobby, a successful Beaumont publisher and one of the most popular governors Texas ever had. Oveta went to work as a clerk in the circulation department. Ike Culp and Hobby were old friends. After the death of Hobby's wife, Oveta and Will began to see each other after office hours. In 1931, when Oveta was 26, Hobby 53, they were married...
From that day, young Captain Nasser, the son of a postal clerk, began ten years of underground preparation for the day when the corrupt Farouk would be overthrown. Service in the disastrous Palestine wars brought him a bad shoulder wound, increased his bitterness at Egypt's wretched regime, and intensified his determination. By 1949 he had enlisted seven trusted young officers. "I trained and brought up all the officers in the Free Movement," says Nasser. "I spent ten years on them. I tested them all without them knowing it." When the time came, Nasser and the others looked...
...Calling at her dismal slum home to tell her he would not marry her, Jimmy met her handsome younger sister Madge, promptly switched his affections and made Madge his mistress. As for poor Florrie, what else could she do but shine up to Herbert, a dull, decent office clerk, persuade him that she was carrying his child, and accept his offer of marriage...