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Wind & Froth. "Tall in body and mind," a handsome, brown-eyed man with a deep voice, Brann first hit Waco at the age of 39 after an odyssey that began in rural Illinois. He went to work as a bellhop when he was 13. By 21, he had been a painter, freight-train fireman, brakeman, baseball pitcher and manager of an opera company. Then, educating himself as he went along, he worked on newspapers in St. Louis, Galveston, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. In Austin, his first attempt to run his own paper foundered...
...carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome prints, then drive straight to their rooms, guided by a bicycle-mounted bellhop, without once stepping out of their cars...
...nimble idea man. For his first big account he coined the phrase "Bulova Watch Time." For Eversharp, Inc. he invented radio's $64 Question, saw the sum of money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest U.S. advertising agency...
...Donald Surine, 37, who was summarily fired by the FBI in 1950 for his eccentric handling of a white-slavery case. The subcommittee majority seemed dead set against Surine, who serves McCarthy as a devoted bellhop, chauffeur and muscleman, so the Senator switched him from the staff to his Senate payroll...
Meanwhile in Boston, before the giant Dartmouth game, a bellhop at the Big Green dance was overheard to say that Dartmouth students were more generous and better dancers than the Harvards, though the latter showed greater signs of sobriety than the invaders from Hanover. The Indians crushed Harvard on the gridiron the next afternoon...