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...Kansas City somebody's mother entered a meat shop, was handed a package marked $4.65. "What is it?" she asked. Said the clerk: "A pot roast." She kept on being difficult: "How much does it weigh?" The clerk sighed, kept his temper in a most gentlemanly way, and answered: "Lady, we don't weigh it. We sell it by the piece. Don't you want it?" Then the little lady made the biggest mistake of all. She said...
Superficially, they were almost as unlike s two young people could be. Square-aced, serious Ed Willock, 30, a Boston Catholic with a high-school education, supported his wife & four children as a shipping clerk, studied commercial art on the side. Thin, big-eyed Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they...
...took cojolery for the clerk selling mens trousers to convince the seeker that book authorizations didn't include replacements for pants worn out on a Geology field trip. No, not even if the trip was undertaken under the G. I. Bill Not even if the rocks encountered there were solely responsible. Not even if the rocks were rough...
Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...