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...firm, Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, the interviewer described him as "a personable young man with no recommendation from the Dean." Nevertheless, Colbert's bounce, flair and talk caught the fancy of Partner Nicholas Kelley, a Chrysler vice president, director and legal adviser. Kelley hired him as a law clerk at $2,100 a year-less than a single summer's earnings on the cotton market...
...tile-roofed Chosun Hotel, where a South Korean flag hung limply in the cold. The hotel itself was completely deserted. The staff had fled during the day, and the building had the queerly disturbing air of a ghost ship. There were two half-filled teacups on the room clerk's desk, two heavily tinseled Christmas trees in the lobby, and exactly four lights burning on the telephone switchboard...
Rudi Bing now thinks of his five years at Glyndebourne as the best of his life. The idyl was shattered by World War II. Glyndebourne shut up shop; Bing went to work in a London department store (Peter Jones in Sloane Square) as a coupon clerk, eventually worked his way up to manager. Technically, he was an enemy alien; he had applied for British citizenship in 1939, but the war had prevented his papers from going through. He was never interned. Moreover, he was able to bring his aging parents from Austria to England...
...Communist sympathizers from their teaching staffs was among a number of petitions awaiting committee action in the 157th Massachusetts Legislature. Another bill calls for the complete banning of the Communist party in the Commonwealth. Both were presented by State Representative Paul A. McCarthy (D-Somerville) and Superior Court Clerk Thomas Dorgan. Last year, they brought up a bill asking for removal of Communst teachers. But, filed late, the petition never come to a vote. Instead it was refered to the Committe on Subvesive Activities...
...rhymes with seem) was running for his fifth term, Columnist Drew Pearson lined the 58-year-old Congressman up in his sights. Brehm, wrote Pearson,* was "another quiet operator in the congressional kickback circle." Over a period of three years, said Pearson, the Congressman had compelled his elderly office clerk, Mrs. Clara Soliday, to kick back a regular share of her salary; at the top, he had taken back $240 of the $442 the Government paid her each month...