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...politeness and tact that is almost as legendary as Ross's volcanic temper. "No one," says a friend, "has yet gotten through a door behind him." Editor Shawn never swears or raises his voice. He works up to 14 hours a day as quietly as a bank clerk, carries home a pile of work to his Fifth Avenue apartment. For relaxation, he plays hot jazz on the piano and reads four or five books a week...
Faulty filing caused the mix-up. A committee member used a favorable report form instead of an adverse one in filing the proposal in the House clerk's office. Another bill to set up a censorship committee was also turned down...
...born Meer Genokh Moiseevich Vallakh, the son of a Jewish bank clerk in Polish Russia. On police dockets of Czarist Russia and most of the countries of Europe, he was many aliases-Ludwig Nietz, Maxim Harrison, David Mordecai, Felix. To Lenin, Stalin and the other Old Bolsheviks, he was Papasha (papa dear), one of the trusted inner circle. The rest of the world got to know him as Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. For two confusing decades, he was one of Russia's two faces -the false...
...Waiting Room. After the Revolution, Trotsky made Litvinoff Ambassador to Britain. The British refused to accept him, agreed only grudgingly to deal with him through a Foreign Office clerk. For a while, the two met by a kiosk behind the Foreign Office. But after a few pathetic meetings in the rain, the Foreign Office relented: it allowed Litvinoff inside as far as the waiting room...
...rights are more important than my legs," declared James Kutcher, legless veteran in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union in Leverett Junior Common Room last night. Kutcher was dismissed from his job as a clerk for the Veterans Administration by the VA Loyalty Board because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party...