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Ponte worked last summer as a doorman at the University Theatre to earn money for his campaign. For reason of health he is not allowed to do very heavy labor. "The money is about gone," he confided, "though the campaign is just starting...
...some, single-minded Doug Hepburn, beefing up like a young bull, was a big joke, but Doug stuck to his routine. After he quit high school, he worked summers as a lifeguard at city beaches, winters as a hotel doorman. Once, separating two drunks grappling in the lobby, Doug yanked at the top tippler, accidentally sent him hurtling through the air like Superman. In local weight-lifting contests, Doug sometimes claimed to have broken a world record; most spectators figured he was bragging. Vancouver newspapers buried Doug's exploits as sports-page filler stuff. Sometimes, in news famines...
When the parade finally passed and the cheers faded away, the new President took his lady by the arm and walked, beaming, up the portico steps and into the White House. For gnarled old John Mays, the doorman who bowed them in, it was an old story: Mamie Eisenhower was the ninth First Lady he had served. For Mamie it was the start of the most exacting, exciting job in a busy career...
...following a policy that aids as many as possible starts even before the entering class his entered. Certainly not a naïve idealism, his faith in scholastic latitude perhaps formed first in the southern Ohio town where he remembers seeing one high school classmate working as a Hotel doorman and another directing the local bank. "It is difficult to maintain this valley of democracy," he admits, but the University can contribute greatly to its continuation. He believes that "Harvard, if it is to remain preeminent as a university, has a special responsibility to guard jealously its free market...
...Black Castle (Universal-International) is a forbidding edifice in the Black Forest to which, according to one of its inhabitants, "nothing but evil ever came." This moldering manse is presided over by one-eyed Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally), with a mute Lon Chancy as his doorman and Boris Karloff acting as his house physician. When dashing Sir Richard Burton (Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black...