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...easier said than done. Lawyer Frank had been law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black* and was able to draw on the powerful help of a Catholic justice, the late Frank Murphy. Even so, it took many months to find among the few homes caring for handicapped children one that would accept a baby of Petey's age and with his incurable illness. It took almost as long for Petey's mother, Lorraine Frank, to make up her mind to part with her firstborn. Only when her second baby was on the way could she make...
...over. Donahue had already consulted two lawbooks and acquired much homework for the next nine evenings. The clerk was so hoarse from reading the 17 detailed larceny indictment's that he called for three glasses of water as the court policemen hustled the drowsy audience out of the courtroom...
Three weeks ago, Arnold Schuster, 24, was going about his uneventful life as a clerk in his father's gents' furnishings store in Brooklyn. Fame touched him when, riding a subway, he spotted Bank Robber Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the nation's most wanted criminal, on an opposite seat. Schuster's tip led police to capture Willie (TIME, March 3). Then, when the cops tried to hog the credit, he hired a lawyer to establish his claim to a rumored reward...
...more or less by himself," and the tradition ran in the family. His father lived in a house made of sods and, when he decided to marry, advertised for a wife. Will grew up in the heavy-lidded town of Galloway, and settled down to the job of night clerk in the hotel. He did not drink or smoke, and never had much to say. He proposed to a complaisant girl named Opal, who let him (and others) sleep with her, but she turned him down...
Died. Brownlee Owen Currey, 51, investment banker and president of Equitable Securities Corp.; of anemia; in Nashville, Tenn. Starting as a bank clerk while a Vanderbilt undergraduate, Currey wound up as a transit king (American Express Co.), publisher (Southern Agriculturist, Farm and Ranch), city bus-system czar (in Akron, Nashville, Richmond...