"So Carefullee"

When I was a lad I served a term

As office boy to an Attorney's firm.

I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,

And I polished up the handle of the big front door.

I polished up that handle so carefullee

That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

In 1928, soon after his graduation from Washington University, blond, handsome Clark McAdams Clifford began his term with a St. Louis attorney's firm (Lashly, Lashly & Miller).

Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip

That they took me into the partnership.

And that junior partnership, I ween,

Was the only ship that I ever had seen.

But that kind of ship so suited me

That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!

By 1938, Clark McAdams Clifford was taken into the partnership (Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford). Two years ago he was commissioned a Navy Lieutenant (j.g.), was jet-propelled in 21 months to captain.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,

If you want to rise to the top of the tree,

If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,

Be careful to be guided by this golden rule--

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,

And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!/-

Last week 39-year-old Captain Clifford, who had stuck to his desk and never gone to sea, took over as President Truman's Naval Aide.

/- Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B. in Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

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