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Word: clerks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is an angry first novel about the casual maltreatment of the insane in a Midwestern state asylum called Canterbury. The book's anger might be a great deal more effective if Author Telfer, who herself spent six years as a clerk in a state institution, did not keep abandoning the snake pit for the passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snake or Passion Pit? | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...brother, Sam H. Johnson, was listed as a clerk of the Senate Democratic Conference with a salary at an annual rate of $15,633,36. The report also showed that Sens. James E. Murray D-Mont., Leverett Saltonstall R-Mass., and Ralph W. Yarborough D-Tex. had their sons working in their offices here...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Cuba Renews Military Tribunals, Three U.S. Citizens Face Trial; Red Troops to Stay in Hungary | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

Dunster: Freshman Swimming, Tennis; WHRB, News Director, Clerk, Treasurer, Board Member; Harvard Motor-Scooter Club, President; House Athletics; Junior Usher; Hasty Pudding Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Senior Class Marshals | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

...Alec Guinness in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Decks (NBC). Not long ago Guinness, perhaps best remembered, for his role as the dubious bank clerk in The Lavender Hill Mob, declared: "I have an absolutely unalterable rule-no more roles about a dubious bank clerk." For his TV debut, he played just such a clerk, who dubiously plots to avenge 22 years of thankless labor by humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Top of the Week | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Where It Hurts. In Seisdon, England, Town Clerk Arno Romer Baskett explained how overdue rents will be collected from holdout tenants: "We will seize their television sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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