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...court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
...pros, winner of 17 tourneys and $53,200 during the past year, was momentarily stymied in Spokane. Checking in for the Esmeralda Open (which he later won, making it 18 wins and $55,200), he asked for his hotel reservation and was told by the clerk: "I'm afraid not. All our rooms are being reserved for the golfers...
Readers of his autobiographical Plough man of the Moon may be surprised to learn that Rhymester Service was once a Scottish bank clerk. Born in Lancashire, England, he was brought up in Scotland by his grandfather and three Bible-addicted spinster aunts...
...answer was the Yukon town of Whitehorse-as a bank clerk once more, but a bank clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
Thereafter, Bank Clerk Service answered to the epithet of "Bard" and became Whitehorse's leading celebrity. After repeating his first success with Ballads of a Cheechako and a popular novel of the Gold Rush, The Trail of '98, he was free to live and wander as he liked...