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...last week Doorman Pat McKenna swung open the door into the private office of the President of the United States and announced: "The Gentlemen of the Press...
Uncertain how to behave in this, their first formal press conference with the new President, the newsmen hesitated. Doorman McKenna said: "Pass by in single file, please, and meet the President. Mr. Young will introduce you." John Russell Young of the Washington Star, oldest White House Correspondent on the job, took post near the President...
...ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses the suspicions of the police when he reveals many of the lies Elton has told to explain his presence and the presence of the murdered man in Miss Hale's apartment. Further complications arise when Wallace Crane arrives home...
Died. Larry Fay, 44, Manhattan racketeer; of two bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...
...Even the doorman of Dublin's Abbey Theatre is a product of the Irish Renaissance. He can and usually does recommend which copies of the Theatre's extensive repertoire you should buy from him to take home and read. On their second U. S. tour since 1914, which opened in Manhattan last week, the Abbey Theatre's Irish Players were not accompanied by their knowing doorman...