Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Virginia. Lanky, red-haired Bob Garst is all newspaperman; marriage, remarked a friend last week, is about his only hobby (his wife used to edit the Times's letters column). A Virginian, Garst first worked for the Times as a morgue clerk while studying at Columbia's School of Journalism ('24). He has been on the Times news staff for 23 years, for the past two years as assistant night managing editor. In his spare time, Garst wrote (with Timesman Ted Bernstein) a widely used manual on copyreading, Headlines and Deadlines, and taught journalism at Columbia...
...Painting," Bernard's father, an insurance clerk, warned, "is a hungry profession." But Bernard didn't go hungry long. Of his first 30 melancholy canvases ("Who will buy these dreary things?" his art dealer asked), he sold 26. He has been selling ever since...
...then was unable to find a job that would support them both: "If there's fighting to do, the soldiers had better not get married. Half their hearts would be in the family, and only half in the fight." But the prim young wife of a Shanghai bank clerk spoke sharply for the rest: "Whenever men get into trouble, they blame women...
...tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French Foreign Legionnaire wrote: "Only reason of request is to evade this life of a clerk which I live with much intolerance...
Live Wire. In Boston, Telegraph Clerk Virginia Sullivan carefully counted the ten words of a customer's message, handed over $500 as soon as she had absorbed it: "This is a stickup. Quiet and you won't get hurt...