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...Bally slippers make only the slightest squishing noise as he makes his way to his club for a few hands of whist, for talk of the Malaya network and of what new moles have been rooted out of it. At the door, he is greeted by the doorman, a fine, silver-haired chap clad in a waistcoat which prominently displays his regimental...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

...worn photo album that the star uses to document his "roaches to riches" story. Stallone, dressed in running shoes and warmup suit, puffing on a Dunhill briar pipe, leafs through the pictures of his pre-Rocky days, a ritual of memory: "There's me in a doorman's jacket I stole to keep warm. There's me with an earring-I actually delivered Perrier in that. Another with my torn-T shirt Stanley Kowalski look. Every six months I'd go to one of those picture machines to see how fast I was deteriorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winner and Still Champion | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...with only minor injuries, but U.S. generals in Europe were advised to safeguard themselves. Little was done. Dozier went on living in his top-floor apartment in downtown Verona-the city of blood feuds and doomed love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-in a building without a doorman or even a resident superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Are Cowardly Bums | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...fourth bill. Lawyers on both sides agree that Zimmerman is likely to win his case. The only question is whether he will be awarded as much as the $10 million he is seeking. Whatever he gets, the money will be welcome to Zimmerman, 63, who now works as a doorman at a Manhattan apartment house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefs: Briefs: Aug. 3, 1981 | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...bill would also allow management to establish productivity standards, bar automatic cost-of-living increases, and end practices attacked by many legislators as wasteful--computing overtime earnings in pension calculations and requiring an extra doorman for every two cars...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: King Submits New MBTA Proposal | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

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