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...seminars in various regions to tip off local board physicians to neurotic danger signals. As an example of the sort of man the Army would have taken in 1917 but hopes to keep out in 1941, Colonel Rowntree cites the hypothetical case of a 30-year-old clerk who comes from a large family, has good health but exaggerates his minor ailments, goes to bed for three or four days when he has a slight cold, may choose to subsist for days on unbleached barley and skim milk, has few friends, neither drinks, smokes nor pursues women. Colonel Rowntree says...
...store clerk gained in almost every subject, learned five times as much about foreign literature after college as in his last two college years...
...first reaction to the President's Budget for the fiscal year 1941-42 came as a reading clerk in the House of Representatives droned: ". . . will cost about 17.5 billions of dollars." A Congressman whistled. Speaker Sam Rayburn pounded his gavel. The clerk droned...
...room clerk at the Willard Hotel looked up. Frowning down on him was a giant of a man clad in a sheepskin coat, faded polka-dot shirt, blue denim overalls, high laced boots, and a tired tan hat. The man asked for a room. The clerk coughed politely and said they were full up. The old mari turned away. "I been saving a year for this trip," he said, "and I did kinda want to stay where 'H. A. W.'* put up." Washington soon found out why Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo...
There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...