Word: clerkship
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...Columbia's Dale S. Collinson, 25 (Justice White), the son of an Oklahoma lawyer, is a summa Yale B.A. First in his class at Columbia Law School last year, he was turned down for a Supreme Court clerkship. While he waited for his next chance, Collinson clerked for U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Paul Hays in New York...
...Philadelphia postal clerk, won a mayor's scholarship to college and earned a Phi Bete key. First in his class at the law school ('62), Goldstein matched the school's highest average in 30 years but failed to get a Supreme Court clerkship on graduation. Grabbed by a prestigious Philadelphia law firm, he later got a second chance to clerk and accepted because "I couldn't afford...
Billy's real life is crammed to the brim with that dreary banality which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
Alas, Domenico is too young, too innocent to see that if he does what they do he will one day be as they are. At the end, promoted to a clerkship, he sits at his new desk and looks calmly into the camera. He has achieved his ambition, he has won un posto sicuro. The audience senses that he will never leave it. On the sound track gradually rises the mechanical relentless rumbling of a mimeograph machine...
...accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...