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...heavily on Federal District Judge David A. Pine. For four days he pored over transcripts, briefs and precedents; at night he slept fitfully. On the appointed afternoon last week, when his decision was ready for release, an impatient crowd of newsmen, lawyers and court hangers-on shoved into his clerk's office. While bailiffs shouted, "We'll do this orderly, we'll do this orderly," the newsmen snatched up the 500 mimeographed copies of Pine's ruling...
...signatures on bank checks via television. During World War II the bank's records were moved to Osterley Park, ten miles outside London; the bank does not now have enough room in London to move all the records back. So to check a signature or any record, a clerk in Osterley Park simply holds the original in front of a TV camera and it appears on a small screen on the desk of a bank official in London...
...said, "at this time of the morning the street would be jammed with tourists from the King David Hotel. By Sunday night the counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store full of goods, one clerk who has nothing to do but talk politics with his cousin-and the cash register hasn't got a dozen Jordanian dinars...
...Librarian. Anti-Fascist Alcide de Gasperi was a regular inmate of Mussolini's prisons until, his health broken, he was let out in 1929. He spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign...
...Passport to Pimlico (a small section of postwar London is discovered to be foreign soil), Kind Hearts and Coronets (a likable young man kills off six of his relatives), Tight Little Island (a whisky famine makes criminals of a whole island), Lavender Hill Mob (a mild-mannered clerk pulls off a bank robbery...