Word: bellhopping
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...sales job, and he has done a good one." But in the early days of the Walsh regime, the players held back, not sure what to make of a coach whose sense of humor once prompted him to disguise himself on the spur of the moment as a bellhop. He then tried to extract tips from his players as they emerged from the team bus after it arrived at the hotel. "In the beginning," says junior quarterback Steve Stenstrom, "he would say something funny, but we weren't sure we should laugh. Now we laugh at his jokes every...
...covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm...
Some of the few funny moments in Suite Dreams also turn out to be Yang's inventions. For instance, a lamentable bellhop at the hotel (well-played by Blake Spraggins) always seems to have his itchy hand out for a non-existent tip. He later laments that "I should 'a listened to my wife and been a podiatrist" instead of staying with the "bellhop" trade...
...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...