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Crime Pays. In Springfield, Mo., Clerk Harry Nicholson announced that hereafter guests of the county jail could pay for their meals, if they had the price, and thereby shorten their terms...
...government fighters knew they had a tough opponent in Vafiades, who uses the nom de guerre of "General Markos." Born 41 years ago at Kastononv, in Asia Minor, he worked as a bricklayer, painter, carpenter, grocer boy, street vendor, real-estate clerk, army private, tobacco worker, journalist. In 1924 he joined the Communists in Macedonia and edited a Communist workers' publication. His police file shows that he has been jailed at least eight times since 1929; that he is 5 ft. 7 in. tall, lean and muscular; that he has blue eyes, wavy chestnut hair and a mustache that...
Police and doctors told the rest of the story. Capocci was a balloon vendor who had lived in Stockholm for 19 years. He was mad. Ten years ago he tried to see the Italian minister (one of Ricci's predecessors), was received only by a clerk. He never forgot the slight...
...Kansas City, a grocery clerk named James Robert Browne, who had spent 43 months overseas in World War II, 'said: "This is my third Christmas home and I am still not getting much kick out of it. Don't ask me why." College students, however, betrayed no such introspection. Girls from Southern Methodist University had some new slang: they spoke of all material things as "sussies" and used "sneedy" as a term of disapproval...
...Omaha, the railroad trainmen's President A. F. Whitney spun like a pinwheel. After Harry Truman broke the railroad strike in 1946, Whitney had bellowed: "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." Now he came out for Truman in '48. Said he: "My good, Christian parents taught me it is a good thing to forgive and forget...