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There seemed to be nothing John Clark could do about it. He tried again to stop the relief checks, this time at the county clerk's office. "I told them I was making good money," he said, "and warned them they were breaking up my home by giving my wife that check for $90 every month." But the welfare office stood fast, told John Clark: "It is hard to get on the relief rolls and just as hard to get off." The family arguments about all that spare money finally got so bad that John and Esther Clark were...
...Wonderful Ogre." Though the State Department is an enticing target to all Congressmen, Mrs. Shipley, head of its passport division, is the most invulnerable, most unfirable, most feared and most admired career woman in Government. Starting as a $1,200-a-year State Department clerk in 1914, she graduated to her present post in 1928. She brought with her a sharp insight into bureaucracy and the ways of bureaucrats. Her division grew amazingly (it now has 240 employees, six branch offices, has issued and renewed over 250,000 passports this year), and yearly worked wonders of economy and speedy service...
Carl Kaysen, (above), assistant professor of Economics, this week marks the first year of his term as law clerk to Judge Charles E. Wysanski, Jr., '27 in the government's anti-trust suit against the United Shoe Machinery Corporation...
...fine original novel about youth and old age, written in a style close to poetry and filled with insights into human incongruities. Joyce Gary proved again that he has the richest comic sense among living writers in English. His Mister Johnson, the story of a young African clerk who wanted too much from life, was just about the most satisfying novel of the U.S. year, though first published in England in 1939. Nancy Mitford's gift for cultivated malice came shining through in The Blessing, a comedy of Franco-British manners, and a little book called The Young Visiters...
...Carol" stars Alastair Sim as old Ebenezer Scrooge. Sims gives something to the word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...