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...paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...
Jean Knox knows that it is not enough for women of the A.T.S. to feel they are freeing men for active service, not enough to sit at a teletypewriter, be a clerk in a canteen, help run a searchlight, run errands at headquarters, cook Army meals, work rangefinders, decode messages-not enough to man a military job: they must also occasionally do a job on a military man. Accordingly she wants her women to be as attractive as they are efficient...
...amateur golf record. Result: Jimmy got the jitters, was sent to the sidelines in the quarterfinals. In the 36-hole final, with the thermometer still hovering around 100°, chunky Bill Welch, a Houston toolmaker who studies law at night school, beat slim, bespectacled Jack Kerns, a Denver insurance clerk, on the 31st green...
...must be pretty bad at home. Last week two Germans killed themselves because they had to go back to Germany. Few days before he was to sail for Lisbon on the U.S.S. West Point (formerly the America) with 500 expelled Nazis and Italians, Heinrich Kurt W. Nostiz, an administrative clerk, walked into a room on the third floor of the German Embassy in Washington, said goodby, shot himself. The Embassy gave out that he had died of heat prostration, later admitted a suicide, tried to pass it off in the Hess vein by a yarn of mental illness...
Four days later, Julius Leopold Otto, a clerk at the Consulate General in Manhattan, hanged himself in his suburban home. His wife said that he had been despondent...