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...money, no promises of help, and most of them were already busy working their way through college. But they took on extra odd jobs to earn the $250 they figured it would cost each of them to stay in India for two months. One worked as a clerk, another in the library, another helped out at primary elections. Their enthusiasm spread across the campus. The local chapter of Alpha Phi went without desserts and saved $80 for the project. Sunday-school classes contributed their pennies. Then an anonymous patron donated $15,000 to cover transportation costs...
...clerk at the publisher Hachette's, started Zola off on the main track of his career. He ran a literary gossip column for a scandal sheet, hacked out newspaper serials, and even managed to publish a couple of poor books...
...young Briton kept an appointment with Pavel Kuznetsov, ferret-faced second secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Britain. The young fellow was William Martin Marshall, 24, a $21-a-week radio operator employed by the Foreign Office to transmit clear and coded messages to British missions abroad. Once a clerk in Britain's Moscow Embassy, he had been meeting Communist Kuznetsov clandestinely for several months...
Lovett, who left a banker's' life to take over the Department of Defense was graduated from Yale in 1918. He studied at the Harvard Law School from 1919-20, and took graduate courses in business administration from 1920-21. He began work as a clerk in the National Bank of Commerce in New York City, and later became a partner with Brown Brothers, Harriman, and Co. In the early days of the war he served as special assistant to the secretary of war. Later, he served as a pilot and achieved the rank of Lt. Commander. Lovett is also...
Died. John C. Crockett, 88, trumpet-voiced reading clerk of the U.S. Senate for 40 years (until he retired in 1947); in Washington, D.C. Onetime Iowa farm boy and stock-company actor, big, rawboned "Uncle John" was said to be able to read faster than any man in decades of Senate history. Knowing when to skip or when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice...