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...hour because the doors lock electronically. Many spent the night partying at the round tables in the dining room that was made famous by Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. At the New York Hilton, switchboard operators phoned each room to tell guests that two can dles were in every bureau???fixtures since the 1965 blackout. The hotel offered free coffee and food through the night to hundreds of people who milled through the lobby; employees clambered up the stairs each hour with food for the guests on the upper floors. "Alors, c 'est extraordinaire!" exclaimed a Swiss tourist, Irene Baillod...
Subscribers are charged five cents for each message received at the bureau???with a minimum service fee of $1 a year. Fifty girls at the bureau can handle 10,000 messages...
...Sawyer . . . whom the President made a Brigadier General, sought to dominate the Bureau??? and its employees and to destroy my policies. He carried falsehoods to the President and sought to locate hospitals in a way that would be advantageous to his own interests. A homeopath himself, he sought to have homeopaths replace allopaths. He established a stoolpigeon system within the Bureau and in other departments of the government as well. He was a vain, strutting little creature and fancied that he had a great attraction for women. He held himself out to be the personal representative of the President...
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