Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winner: a clerk in the British patent office...
...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
...Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give it up when I became king," he said...
...dapper, soft-spoken Charles Allen Jr. (45), who has learned the tricks of his trade during 30 years in Wall Street. Born in New York, the third of seven children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street they joined him in his growing business...
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...