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...attempt before vacation to bring civil suit against Curry was sidetracked when a Cambridge Clerk of Courts mistakenly initiated criminal proceedings. The Democratic Club called a halt to all action on the criminal case which it insists was "an error from beginning...
...Korea, when a man gets 40 rotation points he can go home. Last week, when a balding, freckled infantry captain named John R. Fitzpatrick reluctantly said goodbye to his company and regiment, the astounded clerk who checked him out of the 7th Division's rotation center noted that Fitzpatrick's card listed 99 points. He actually had more points than that: the I.B.M. machine was preset for only two digits. Captain Fitzpatrick, 29, was headed home with the highest total of rotation points-129-ever amassed by any U.S. soldier in Korea...
...this point, the Yard began to express some curiosity about John Christie. Most everybody remembered him-a thin, high-domed fellow who wore horn-rimmed glasses, worked somewhere as a trucking clerk, liked to take photographs of Netting Hill kiddies in the streets and Notting Hill chippies in their bareskins. "Always so polite and neatly dressed," said Mrs. Rose Bangle. ". . . Never passed a lady in the street without raising his hat." Checking back, the police found that John Christie had been the principal government witness in the case of his tenant-predecessor Tim Evans; near the end of his trial...
...most of her 44 years, Mrs. Dorothy Gutheridge of Minneapolis has patiently endured an existence remarkable only for its bleakness. Deserted by her husband in 1945, Mrs. Gutheridge went to work as a hotel clerk at $32 a week. A year ago, when a foot infection forced her to give up the hotel job, she turned to unrewarding makeshifts: babysitting, caring for old people, tinting photos and painting figurines. She managed to support herself and take care of her crippled, 83-year-old father, but her weary eyes and tight mouth testified to her conviction that...
...simply ignore the threat of recapture. He asked a policeman for directions. The cop replied politely. Reinhold invented a new name, Phillip Brick, applied for a Social Security card, and got it with no trouble at all. He went to work as a dishwasher, then as a bookstore clerk...