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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subsequently, someone fingered Carter, whose FBI job was as a fingerprint clerk. Two days later, he was summoned before the agent in charge of his division. He was told that a formal complaint had been filed about his behavior and ordered to write a statement explaining why he had slept in the same room with a woman. Tom Carter wrote his report, which failed to satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from the FBI for "conduct unbe coming a member of this Bureau." The hapless clerk then confided his troubles to an attorney, who wrote...
Chained to the Cliff. One of eight daughters of a Cracow merchant, Helena Rubinstein launched a thousand ships for herself by making women care to be beautiful, stashed her jewels in drawers marked D for diamonds and R for rubies. She slept in an illuminated Lucite bed that she had had designed for $675 (which sold for $200). Her wealth was reckoned at more than $100 million, but she was frugal enough to eat lunch from a paper bag and strong enough, at 93, to stand off three thugs who tried to burgle her New York apartment...
...might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
...area immediately around the fireplaces is clear of debris, which seems to indicate that the inhabitants of the house slept near the fires on animal skins. There are several large flat stones scattered about, which may have been used as seats or for carving meat. The most important thing, says De Lumley, "is not so much the bones and the tools found on a prehistoric site as their relative positioning." From this, it is possible to learn a great deal about the life and the social habits of prehistoric...
...scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...