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Elizabeth Richmond is an unassuming, 22-year-old clerk-typist who trots dutifully to her museum job every morning and dutifully back to her brandy-swigging guardian, Aunt Morgen, every night. She has the looks and manners of a mouse, the brains of a flea and a fondness for cocoa ("Miserable puny stuff," snorts Aunt Morgen, "fit for kittens and unwashed boys"). Backaches and migraine headaches pin Elizabeth to her bed every so often, and Aunt Morgen is solicitous until she finds the girl sneaking out of the house in the small hours. Accused of a secret romance or worse...
...fragile that they snap under the slightest strain. She has had about 100 fractures (her parents have lost count), at least two simply from being startled. Last week Betty Sheaffer, 22, graduated from Stowe Township High School, near Pittsburgh, after 13 years of home instruction. Her chosen career : typist, working at home...
...Candidates for the office-girl program must be high school graduates. They work for the various departments at TIME, and at the end of the first three months, a girl is eligible to take any job for which she is qualified. The usual first step up is to clerk-typist...
...medical discharge from the Army after three months' service, on his own complaint that he "didn't have the strength" for Army life, and on other findings of doctors who agreed. In New Orleans, where he lived most recently, Charles was regarded as an efficient bookkeeper and typist, but he had trouble holding jobs because of his effeminate ways...
...lawyer who prosecutes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (act this was the case for which the judicial ruling was made) is not making policy. But the new ruling, applied by future Presidents with less respect for the civil service, could reach down to oust the lowliest government typist, on the grounds that in her own small way her partisan attachments were hampering her work...