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...gown, entered the oak-paneled courtroom of the Old Bailey. He shuffled his papers, impatiently tapped the silver snuff box on his high desk. Then, mounting the stairs which lead from the cells below directly into the prisoner's dock, appeared Dr. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs. The court clerk solemnly read the indictment accusing Fuchs of communicating "to a person unknown information relating to atomic research . . . directly or indirectly useful to an enemy." His hand thrust into his trouser pocket, Fuchs whispered: "Guilty." In the visitors' gallery, which was packed with distinguished spectators, the Duchess of Kent toyed...
...lived in the double shadow of the Richardson grandeur and his own mother. In a languid, casual prose that reflects his own insipidity, Henry tells his cousins' story, while he himself is changing from an absolute disciple of the noble Richardson myth to a disillusioned old bank clerk who decries its "false majesty...
...Clerk:-Your address...
...hunched little man in a dark suit walked into Munro's hardware store in Edmonton last week and asked for 80 feet of seven-eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S. Instead of finding his fortune he drifted from job to job-a worker in the rice fields of South Carolina, a plantation bookkeeper, a clerk in New York. But Tommy Lipton never forgot some of the things he learned in P. T. Barnum's U.S. In 1869, with savings of $500, he went back to Glasgow and two years later opened a store of his own. Within a decade, with the help of such publicity stunts...