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...Sandman. The son of an immigrant suspenders maker in Chicago, Crown quit school at 14 to take a job at $4 a week as shipping clerk for a building materials company. He was fired when he mixed up orders, not knowing that it takes both sand and gravel to make concrete. At 23, after several other jobs, he and two brothers started a materials supply company of their own with a borrowed...
...through industry or intelligence but through sheer brass. As Edward Henry ("Denry") Machin, Guinness is a washerwoman's son who gets ahead in the grimy town of Bursley. In grade school, he casually doctors his examination grades to pass with flying colors. Later, as a solicitor's clerk, he blithely adds his name to an invitation list to the fanciest ball of the year, where he boldly dances with the hostess, the Countess of Chell (Valerie Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club he has set up. Through such...
...would-be assassin was Dov Shilanski, onetime inmate of Dachau concentration camp, later a member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. When peace came to Israel, Shilanski became a terrorist without a target. He found a humdrum job as a clerk, slid out of sight for four years. Last spring, when the hard-pressed Jewish government sat down with the hated Germans to negotiate reparations, Shilanski took up his old tools and vowed to avenge the "betrayal...
Next year he published Mister Johnson, probably his finest novel. Johnson is a young Negro, a poor but almost preposterously happy government clerk who lives each day (including his last one) as inventively as though it were the first day of creation. The critical reception was good, but the book sold just over 5,000 copies. Charley Is My Darling, a novel about juvenile delinquents in wartime England, did much better...
WHRB elected Richard S. Rosenbloom '54 president at a meeting Monday night. Albert L. Hopkins '53, was chosen vice-president, and Ralph L. Brown, clerk, Alan Jr. Bell '53, Augustus J. Fabeus '53, Hopkins, and Rosenbloom will serve on the board of directors. The new board picked Bell to be general manager...