Word: doorman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onie's Diplomatic Doorman. Bill Boyle got through the Kansas City School of Law, and, in 1926, was admitted to the bar. He stuffed his diploma in a desk, went to work selling gas appliances, and married a stenographer named Genevieve Hayde. If Bill had failings, greed was not among them. A friend recalls: "He'd make $100 in the morning and take it easy around home the rest...
...Kansas City's Irish district. Two years later he was secretary to the director of police, an old Pendergast hack named Otto P. (Onie) Higgins. The ward bosses, the flatfeet and the job hunters who came to deal with Higgins called Bill Boyle "Onie's Diplomatic Doorman...
...need of a shining, bright-eyed new face. The reform forces of Governor Lloyd Stark were bearing down on Kansas City and threatening to put the corrupt police department under state control. Pendergast & Co. kicked out Onie Higgins (he later went to prison) and put Onie's diplomatic doorman behind Higgins' desk. Boyle was told to "clean up the town and keep it clean." Police Director Boyle followed his orders enthusiastically. In person, he raided gambling houses, broke up slot machines, closed up the red-light district, shut down saloons, and even tossed some of his old acquaintances...
...suit brought by ex-Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. ¶ Course of the week: the University of New Hampshire's compulsory one-game seminar in football for freshmen. While the freshmen watch, the varsity will scrimmage and a coach will lecture on the plays. Explained one faculty man: too few colleges "ever...
...Honor has retired from his spot as doorman and his avocation as match-maker. He is now happily married to a former WAC, and is living on a chicken farm in New Hampshire. They say he is very happy, but occasionally he returns to the Lighthouse to say hello and to look around...