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Pierrette's father, a Val d'Or clerk, has been fearful that his daughter's fame would spread too fast, that his family would incur the wrath of the Church.* The Church itself, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth and fraud, forbids recognition of any person's "miracles," no matter how well documented, as long as the person is alive. In Pierrette's case, the Church has been scrupulously uncommunicative...
...Censor Binford was making Memphis as famed for prudery and intolerance as Boston. The son of a Southern infantry colonel, he left school after learning long division, became a railway postal clerk at 16. He went to Memphis, became an insurance company president, and also a staunch Baptist, Mason, champion of Southern womanhood and white supremacy...
Assault by Trickery. There were other legends-of the forgers who assaulted the bank by trickery (and, until the middle of the 19th Century, risked death in the doing). Most pitiful of the swindlers was a young clerk named Philip Whitehead. He presented a fraudulent bill on a city firm, was promptly caught and hanged. His 19-year-old sister lost her mind at the news. For the next 25 years, until her death, she called at the bank daily to inquire for her brother. In legend, she became the "bank nun." Until 1924, the bank occupied a low, fortress...
Marshall Field & Co. paid Gilbert $650 to learn the clothing preferences of 7,700 high-school boys (gabardines & denims, single-breasted suits, two-tone sport coats). Next, the Joseph Shoe Salon, which once employed Gene as a part-time clerk, paid him $500. He found out where bobby-soxers bought their shoes and why. Other firms ordered surveys on chewing gum, cosmetics, perfumed soap...
...inflation-plagued Shanghai, a Chinese merchant went to his bank to draw out 800,000 Chinese dollars. In a city where a postage stamp costs $1,600, this seemed a routine transaction. But an unreasonable bank clerk refused to hand over more than $100,000, and that in $10 bills. The reckless merchant demanded his money, even if it had to be in 50? bills. He got it-$800,000 in small bills...