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Sunday Special. In the Atlanta, Ga. Sunday Journal, a want ad wanted a strange mentality: "TYPIST-FILE CLERK, smart enough to be worth $135 a month, yet dumb enough to start for less...
...week ended there was another interruption in the all-hail homecoming. Newspapers broke the story that Mrs. Truman has been on the Senate payroll since 1941, for the last two years at the top Senate clerk salary: $4,500 a year. Explained Harry Truman: "She is my chief adviser. I never write a speech without going over it with her. She takes care of my personal mail...
...Fred Gurley is as used to trouble as a railroad man can be. He started at the bottom; his first job (1906) was as a clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
...clerk sang out the roll call of states, four husky men in shirt sleeves began lugging armloads of placards down the Stadium aisles and stacking them neatly at the end of each row of delegates. The whole thing ticked as smoothly as Swiss watchworks. On the second roll call Nebraska's squarish Governor Dwight Griswold, his hair plastered down tight, approached the speakers' microphone and the posters began bobbing briskly down each row of seats. By now the Stadium's high, bunting-hung galleries were crowded with spectators waiting to see the nomination. Governor Griswold wound...
Milton Snavely Hershey, 86-year-old chocolate king, was strolling through spacious Hershey (Pa.) Park when he came across an unattended candy booth, promptly got behind the counter, sold 5? chocolate bars (20? worth) before the clerk returned...