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...leaders had been hounded to suicide after being falsely accused of the crime. Guan's undoing came only last April, when, trying to profit from an increase in the state purchase price of private gold, he sold 100 oz. of his horde at the local bank. A suspicious teller notified the public security police, who quickly searched Guan's home and found the rest of his hidden loot...
...Harold," 50, is the son of a South Carolina millworker. With an M.A. in literature from Duke University, he headed north and took a job as a bank teller while working toward his New York teaching certificate. In 1963 he became an English teacher in a big New York City high school. Six years later, seeking a change, he spent a year at a suburban school, but was bored. "That's when I learned how much I identified with the deprived kids in Manhattan." Back in the city, Harold helped launch a special reading program. "We were all weary...
...businesslike, he denied the Government's charges that he had misapplied bank funds and filed misleading financial records to obtain about $1.3 million in loans. He stoutly defended his banking practices, reminiscing about the lesson he had learned in his first banking job, as a $90-a-month teller at the Calhoun (Ga.) First National Bank. One of his customers, Elsie Goforth, regularly put up a Guernsey cow named Spot as collateral on $100 loans. Once she defaulted and, to Lance's horror, showed up at the bank to surrender Spot...
...blessing and the mystery of Wise Blood is that it deftly avoids any established category. It is weird. Huston paces his film like a front porch tale-teller sliding through the story with a quiet drawl but leaps out of his rocker to flare with hellfire often enough to keep us nervous, wide-eyed and fascinated...
...word about working as a teller in a bank: don't. Not unless you like to file, unfile, and refile everyday. Not unless you enjoy counting pennies by the hundreds. Not unless a combination of low wages and stifling conditions allures...