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What manner of man was this curly-haired, spectacled witness who looked more like a peaceful, carefully dressed clerk than a secret Government agent? For nine years he had led a double life. To his wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield...
...majors in Government at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He received a degree from the Law School last year, four years after being graduated from Notre Dame. O'Dea practices law in Lowell, where in also serves as Supreme Court clerk. He is chairman of the Lowell chapter of the ADA and belongs...
...Hear ye," the court clerk sang out every morning in a Manhattan federal court. "All poisons having business with the district court . . . draw near, give your attention and ye shall be hold...
...Moses Pendleton, a hulking Connecticut Yankee who had started with American Woolen in 1903 as a clerk, all this sounded like the bad old days. From 1925 to 1946, American Woolen made the goods for one out of every six men's suits in the U.S. But the wool industry, in general, was in a slump until the war years, and American paid no dividends on common stock. Then, as 10,000,000 ex-servicemen rushed to buy their first civvies, American Woolen found itself so prosperous that in 1946 it declared a $12 common dividend, saw its stock...
...Letters. Much the same class-conscious humiliation caused Shaw to leave his clerk's stool in a Dublin office and seek his fortune as a literary man-for "you cannot be imposed upon by baronets ... if you belong to the republic of art." He is sure that men of letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could...