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Edward A. Pollock, 28, a Manhattan bank clerk, collects TIME covers as a hobby. Before he puts them into his scrapbook, however, he sends them out to the cover subjects for autographs. "I was always attracted by the covers," he says, "and I thought it would make an interesting collection for my young...
...wish this whole mess never began," commented one clerk. "It's more trouble than it's worth...
Cambridge liquor store employees yesterday denied that they have knowingly been selling to minors. Asked how teenagers were getting their liquor, one clerk commented, "Its not coming from...
...helped stake John D. Rockefeller, became his partners in running the Standard Oil Trust and left huge fortunes.* As one of their heirs, young Jennings, after graduation from Yale in 1920, had no trouble landing a job with Socony (then Standard Oil Co. of New York) as a clerk in the marine department. Soon he was purchasing agent, then real-estate manager, became assistant to President John A. Brown, and stepped into his shoes at Brown's death...
Jennings shares command with Chairman Holton, a onetime $5-a-month law clerk who became general counsel of Vacuum Oil Co., another result of the trustbusting, and moved into 26 Broadway in 1931, when Socony and Vacuum merged. Jennings' hobby is woodworking. When he discovered that Chairman Holton's gavel was missing, he took an old table leg and turned him a new one on his lathe. The gavel is used sparingly, for both men rule Socony largely by committee (the board and the four-man executive committee) ; it is too large to do otherwise...