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Married. Princess Kazuko, 20, daughter of Emperor Hirohito, and Toshimichi Takatsukasa, 26, $20-a-month museum clerk and a cousin of the Dowager Empress Sadako; in Tokyo, after a formal ceremony in which she gave up her imperial rank and privileges (the bridegroom's family was reduced to commoner status upon adoption of the 1947 Constitution...
...company has expanded and dividends have increased, thanks partly to the employees' interest in making the company more successful, the payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...
...clerk of the scales at New Orleans' City Park. Later he worked as judge, steward, entry clerk, bookkeeper, and finally handicapper at tracks from Agua Caliente to Winnipeg, in 1935 was picked as racing secretary for the New York tracks...
Parts of Mr. Orton's ears were missing. Captain James Cook of H.M.S. Endeavour was very much upset; his ship's clerk had been grossly abused. The poor fellow had gone to bed drunk in the ordinary way, and then someone had crept into his cabin and cropped his ears. There had been no witnesses, but on circumstantial evidence Captain Cook suspended a midshipman from duty for three weeks...
...Richard Pitman, a Somerville clerk, was yesterday chosen as foreman of the jury which will hear the case in Middle sex Superior Court...