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...weeks ago Hazel got her first live tip. A Dallas firm told the long-distance operator to try a subcontractor in Laporte, Texas. She did. "Yes, we have R. J. Bedgood employed here," reported the Laporte office clerk. "I can get him to the phone if it's an emergency." "Never mind, operator," said Hazel, and hung up. Her next call was to the Savannah chief of detectives, who put in a few calls himself...
Lenin once dismissed Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." A keener assessment appears in a snatch of dialogue from an early session of the comrades...
...with Soft Hands. Molotov was born Vyacheslav Skriabin, son of a Great Russian retail clerk who worked in a dry-goods store in the village of Kukarka (now Sovietsk). Papa Skriabin, though far from wealthy, owned a roomy frame house; his children went to high school and learned the violin, which Molotov is said to have played badly but with soul. Molotov has claimed the composer Skriabin as an uncle, but Skriabin's family does not reciprocate...
...more efficient. He shot a waitress, Mrs. Harriet Horsman, 48, and scooped $49 from the till. The cafe owner's wife made the mistake of screaming too. Fred killed her. Then the young couple drove on to Minneapolis to get married. They naively gave the license clerk their correct ages, and were turned down. "But," said Diane primly, "as far as we are concerned, we are legally married...
...present time the case is not in front of any court and it has been taken off the record of the clerk of the criminal court...