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...famed Egyptian family of patriots (father was onetime Minister to the U.S.), began newspapering by contributing anti-British articles to their school paper. At 14 they tried to get work as apprentices on dailies in Cairo, were turned down because they were too young. They found an unemployed clerk, armed him with samples of their work and got him hired on a paper. For months they worked as his ghost. Because they worried about being so much alike, they split up and went to different colleges; Mustafa to Georgetown to study international relations, Ali to Sheffield in England to take...
...Mexico City, U.S. Ambassador William O'Dwyer acted out a memorable exhibition of how an ambassador should not act. He set the scene early in the morning by having a clerk telephone every U.S. correspondent in the capital, urging them to come to the embassy for a "very important" press conference...
Died. Frank J. Sensenbrenner, 87, onetime postal clerk who became president and chairman of the board of the Kimberly-Clark paper manufacturing corporation (first to develop Kleenex, Kotex, and a special ground-wood paper for rotogravure printing); in Neenah...
Refresher Course. In Ludlow, England, Postal Clerk Edward O'Sullivan was chosen to attend classes in the detection of forged money orders, returned to his office and forged ?94 ($263) for himself...
...Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position to learn diplomatic codes and read top secret messages; a Communist consul in the Dominican Republic was transferred to Greece and made chargé d'affaires; another known Communist was jumped from consul third class in El Salvador to charg...