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Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
...General Wladyslaw Anders, commanding the Polish Army in Italy, flew to London from his headquarters last week. He was turned away from the Savoy by a clerk who had never heard of him, finally found a room elsewhere. Two days later he sat grimly listening to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin explain that the Anders army must be disbanded at once...
...Both families finecombed their tenants and employes, singling out those whose lives depended upon their landlord's bounty, and ruthlessly training them as "witnesses." Others who yearned to stand in well with the British Raj or with the Congress Party were bribed with promises of political preferment. One clerk, who worked in the British magistrate's office, sold "evidence" to both sides so profitably that he "very nearly paid for the wedding of his second daughter." Genuine witnesses mysteriously disappeared, or were threatened with penury or death...
Eskimos call at the post about once a fortnight, bringing Arctic foxes. While the huskies eat, the post manager settles accounts for the furs brought in, offers advice on supplies for the next trip. The clerk sells essentials: 30-30 rifles and ammunition, all-steel traps, motorboats costing up to $4,000, tea and tobacco (which the Eskimos love), and beyond that, "anything up to nylons...
Three years ago a young book-publishing clerk named George Braziller decided to go into business for himself. He was broke. But he knew of a business where he would not need much money. So he borrowed $25 and started a book club, the Book Find Club...