Word: bellhop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean King, chairwoman of Michigan's delegation: "When we got to the hotel the bellhop said, 'Hello, women.' I said, 'You have just doubled your...
...spunky Washington Star Boswell to the capital's power society, declared recently that in her affluent and respectable precincts there was consternation over Jimmy Carter's dress and his insistence on carrying his suit bag. "If the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop," she decreed, "they could have found one without all that concern about issues...
...public school in Washington was well received by the largely black population of the capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have found one without all that concern about issues, debates, etc." When Carter said he would like to walk to the White House for a meeting with Gerald Ford, the President's staff nixed the idea because, they said, it created logistical problems. Thus Carter was forced...
...1960s a psychic superstar came along in the person of Ted Serios, a hard-drinking, onetime bellhop from Chicago. Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo." Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects. The instrument contained a minuscule lens at one end and a photographic transparency at the other. When the device was pointed...
Died. Fred Apostoli, 59, "the fighting bellhop" of San Francisco who became an amateur boxer while working as a hotel elevator boy and won the world middleweight championship in November 1938; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...