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...Harry Truman, bottle duster, bank clerk and would-be haberdasher, was bogged deep in failure. All he had to show for his career was an old army uniform and a loving cup too ostentatious to keep on the mantel...
Texas Cavalier. In Austin, State Representative Joseph Humphrey, pained to learn that soldiers had been waking a pretty county clerk at all hours of the night to get marriage licenses, introduced a bill forbidding the issuance of licenses between...
Killed in Action. Master Sergeant Meyer Levin, 26, bombardier for the late Colin Kelly, first U.S. hero of World War II; in a Flying Fortress crash off Port Moresby. Onetime stock clerk in a New York City warehouse, handsome Mike Levin joined the Army on his 23rd birthday, flew with Kelly on his last mission, served at Corregidor before he went to Australia, was Brooklyn's No. 1 air hero...
...become naturalized; if found, applicant is notified to appear before the nearest Naturalization examiner who examines him as to his willingness to fight on any front, etc. If the examiner is satisfied that he is a fit subject for naturalization, the necessary papers are then made out by the Clerk of the District Court's office and the applicant and his witnesses take various oaths which are required and sign the papers. Applicant then appears before the Federal District Judge and is sworn in as an American citizen. His Naturalization papers are then made a part of his Army...
Today, Cook spends his days with Imperial, his evenings earning a little extra cash as a clerk in the post office near Grand Central Station. His 19-year-old son, Jean Lawrence, studies medicine at Columbia University, his 17-year-old daughter, Annizella, takes a voice course at the Juilliard School of Music. Cook has found time to complete a course in short-story writing, also contributes a monthly column to the International Musician (official organ of the American Federation of Musicians) on jazz piano technique...