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Thirst. In Seattle, a grocery clerk explained why he had stolen some $4,200 from his employer: "I like to drink beer...
...Hiss had been a member of the Harvard Law Review, Justice Frankfurter told Lawyer Stryker. Yes, members of the Review were certainly young men of "intelligence, character and ability." In 1929, Harvard Professor Frankfurter had picked Hiss to serve as law clerk for the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...astronomy in his senior year in high school; he did not go to college. But he had so much enthusiasm for astronomy that when he was offered a job as "dome assistant" at the observatory a year later (1899), he jumped at the chance. It was a sort of clerk's job, calling for long hours of jotting down star observations. Leon Campbell soon impressed his superiors with his independent work, and in 1905 he was made a regular member of the observatory staff...
...most of the workers, merchants, prostitutes and thieves who inhabited the tiny Via del Corno in 1925, Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And Maciste, the Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate...
...Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps I will get on with the musicians' union...