Word: bellboy
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They wonder what it costs and whether the company would ship like material to their town. They ring bells to see if attendants will come. The actual bellboy, because he has a face, and consequently imperfections, is not at all what they would have suspected. But even though he is not the butler on television, they are impressed. The general, remembering that I do not drive, said that he enjoyed driving and got into the Iriver's seat himself. Highest paid chauffeur you'll ever have, he said to me. This manner made quite a hit with the congressman...
Using Every Minute. Carlson, who manages to be both affable and aggressive, has made a remarkable record in 41 years in the hotel business. He started as a bellboy, dropped out of the University of Washington because of lack of money, rose during World War II to become a Navy lieutenant commander, and went on to become president of Western International Hotels in 1960. Under him, it has become the third largest U.S.-owned hotel group. It has more than 60 mostly luxury hotels, and in recent years has moved into Latin America, Canada, Asia and South Africa...
...comes Mrs. Prentice's previous night's lover, Nick (Charles Murphy), a hotel bellboy in full uniform who wants to blackmail the lady with some morning-after photo negatives. She replies haughtily: "When I gave myself to you the contract didn't include cinematic rights." To cap the comers-in, in comes Dr. Ranee (Lucian Scott), an official inspector of mental clinics: "I represent our government, your immediate superiors in madness." What follows is a running maze of exits, reappearances, disappearances, mistaken identities, clothes swapping between men and women, and one of those crazy-happy recognition endings...
...pining away in unrequited loneliness. Far from it. In the bachelor's make-out paradise of New York, Robert is making out. A hilarious and deftly convincing seduction scene finds him in bed with a loquacious airline stewardess whose final act of disrobing is to doff her bellboy-style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show. It is not a cop-out but a truism that...
...technique was developed by Psychologist David Shapiro and Psycho-physiologist Bernard Tursky of Harvard Medical School. It was tried first on 40 people this spring. Not everyone was able to keep down with the beeps; one participant had a relapse after his wife, unaware that he had left his Bellboy in the car, drove off on a shopping trip. But of the original 40, including a telephone man who set up the beepers, 34 stuck it out until the system had cut them down to as few as four cigarettes a day. Some have even quit smoking altogether...