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...have few people who try to gyp books from the library," Shea notes. "I remember, however, one year in 1928 when we had 2500 books stolen. A bookstore clerk came running into my office waving a tattered and beaten old book. He said some guy tried to sell it. I looked it up in the inventory and sure enough it had been stolen. I told the director, who informed the police, but the director said to me: 'John, I want you to work on this case yourself...
...Members: the Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America; Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; the Rev. Eugene C. Blake, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (North); the Rev. Reuben E. Nelson, general secretary of the American Baptist Convention; the Rev. Douglas Horton, minister at large of the Congregational Christian Churches; the Rev. Ben. R. Lacey, president of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Southern Presbyterian...
Just after the turn of the century, a Swiss patent-office clerk published an abstruse theory of relativity. The world of science and invention was, for the moment, unmoved. Those were the days when Henry Ford was still a struggling manufacturer gambling on the future of a mechanical curiosity. The Wright brothers were coaxing their first plane into brief and tentative flights over the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk. A Frenchman was prepared to turn out an automatic hat-tipper for use with the narrow-brimmed derbies of the period. And a Detroit doctor, after diligent study, had come...
...Central Europe), he was expected to know the difference between JAMAG (Joint American Military Assistance Group), MAPAG (Military Assistance Program Advisory Group) and the numerous MAAG (Military Assistance Advisory Groups). There were hazards. A U.S. Navy officer, puzzled at being assigned to Strategic Air Command, Europe, found that a clerk had mis-deciphered his anagram according to an earlier official list, that he was actually assigned to SACEUR, that is, Ike. Any CPUBINFO could have set him straight. So could DCLOGA (Deputy Chief of Staff Logistics and Administration...
Double Dynamite (RKO Radio), originally called It's Only Money, got its new title as a leering tribute to the extraordinary physical endowments of Actress Jane Russell. The movie, however, cheats on RKO's full-bosomed advertising. Actress Russell is cast as a demure bank clerk named Mibs Goodhug, who aspires to nothing more glamorous than marriage with Frank Sinatra, the bank teller in the next cage...