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...Frederick J. Lawton, who will succeed Pace, is a 49-year-old career civil servant who joined the Government at 19 as a Census Bureau clerk, has been Pace's Assistant Director of the Budget. ¶ Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 51, quit to "get a rest," tend to his own business (mines, lumber, and a fine stable of race horses...
...sick, lonely, ghostlike Hugo evaded them. He never passed a bill to a trained cashier. To make his transactions quick, he never bought an article which was not within easy reach of a clerk's hand. For twelve years-one of the longest chases in Secret Service history-he seldom stopped traveling...
...when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time in organizing an 18-man party...
Kutcher lost his job as a clerk in the Newark Veterans Administration two years ago because of his membership in the Socialist Workers Party, an organi- zation listed as subversive by the Altorney-General...
...fitting machines in shoe stores (TIME, Sept. 19) except denounce it as dangerous. But in Washington last week the District of Columbia's Commission on Medical Licensure tried a neat trick: it banned use of the machines except by licensed operators-and no shoe-store clerk could qualify for a medical operator's license...