Word: clerks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film is unfolded in the March-of-Time manner, implying authenticity. It tells of the young Soviet embassy clerk in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko, who finally sees that his colleagues are seeking to undermine a good country and are getting atomic secrets for reasons other than world peace. Gouzenko steals from the embassy some documentary proof of this and tries to warn the Canadian government. He falls in this, but Gouzenko, wife and child, are rescued in the nick of time from the Russians by the arrival of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That is the end of the picture...
...Grubbing Clerk. Today, at 75, Joseph Armstrong still slaves over his collection after class "like a miserable, grubbing clerk." He still snarls at his students ("They haven't even heard about God"), but he likes to invite the "kids" around for long talks after supper. To him, his is the happiest profession. "If I had ten migrations of the soul," says he, "I'd want to be nothing more than a teacher...
...play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous and stupendous visions of sensuality...
...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...
...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...