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Last week, Henry George Stebbins Noble applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...
...jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted shortly afterward. In 1914 she married Captain Jan Smuts, cousin of South Africa's great general, settled down to obscurity minus the unlucky diamond. Last May she was discovered working as a $16.50-per-week WPA clerk...
...impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary "style," for whom "two and two equal any sum that takes my fancy." This last credo has made his biographies (Doctor Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted in a butler part...
...stock clerk at $18 weekly in William Fileno & Sons' department store bargain basement, John spent the day changing price tags on women's dresses...
Ferdinand's earliest memories are only slightly less poisonous than his later ones. Son of an insurance clerk (''a drivelling great ape, with his head full only of fury, pretences and louder and louder yellings: a whole clattering chaos of idiocies"), and a well-meaning but uncherished mother who runs a dilapidated antique shop, Ferdinand recalls malicious neighborhood gossip, scandals, a murder, a tough playmate who taught him much smut, another playmate who went to the country and died of fresh air. But these are among his lighter reminiscences. Most haunting memory is of his father accusing...