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...long and strange fascination for him. Clues began to appear when he was a young man. First, he noticed that a high-school girl friend had an Oscar on her mantelpiece, although her father worked as a parking at tendant. Then, during his college years, he was a bell-hop at a summer resort, where a middle-aged man in poor health taught him to play chess. The man could play several games at once. blindfolded--which seemed the only extraordinary thing about him until the FBI came to the hotel and the newspapers announced that...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: On Naming and Framing | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

...When's he gonna come down, hey?" one asked a bell-hop answered. "Uses the back...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Man of the People | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...been in and out several times today,: the bell-hop answered. "Uses the back...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Man of the People | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

...blacked miner who could "touch with his hand where the corn is green," the egocentric murderer of "Night Must Fall" is a good brain stifled by its environment. But unlike the poor laborer who is given educational outlet for his intelligence and goes on to Oxford, Dan, the former bell-hop, sailor and local lothario, takes to strangulation and ends on the gallows. Both are Welsh; both are Emlyn Williams; both are, as Dan himself expresses it, a piece of chocolate "with a soft center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...cast follows: M. Stingem, Proprietor of the Hotel Puree-Tourine, S. W. Hovey ocC. Buttons, the Bell-hop, P. L. Cheney 2S.A. Mr. Cravat, of Cravat and Cravat, 7th Avenue, M. G. Jones '22 Mrs. Cravat, Richard Wait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA PRODUCTION FOR 1922 ANNOUNCED | 12/8/1921 | See Source »

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