Word: butler
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That unparalleled mixture of dignity and servility, the British butler, has lived for generations by the code of discretion. With an impassive "Very good, sir," he nonchalantly brushes a golden hair from the lapel of an employer whose brunette wife is impatiently awaiting him. He uses exactly the right tone of gentle authority when informing distraught young ladies that his master is not at home. Family secrets are locked inside his impassive exterior as in a tomb...
Taken Aback. But in London last week a butler was shrilling secrets from the housetops. His name: Thomas Albert Cronin, 44. His former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...babbling butler's exposé seemingly closed all doors in Britain against him. But Thomas Albert Cronin could scarcely care less, at least for the moment. Last week he was in the U.S., appearing on Jack Paar's TV show, and wending his leisurely way to Florida, where he is promised another palace job: as a $17,000-a-year host at a jai alai palace in Dania, a tourist center north of Miami...
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...public, watching on millions of TV screens, saw Lodge at work in that forum-battleground. At every stop along the trail, people swarm around him to clasp his hand and tell him that they admired his work at the U.N. During a Lodge speech at Butler, Pa. (where the old Nixon Hotel was recently renamed the Nixon Lodge), newsmen ran a spot check of the crowd, found that 35 out of 48 men and 21 out of 40 women polled had seen Lodge's U.N. performance on TV. All approved...