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...Errand Boy. Up from Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen," Duffy, a son of Irish immigrants, virtually grew up with the agency he now runs. After quitting high school at 17, he got a messenger boy's job with newly formed Barton, Durstine & Osborn.† Duffy liked to come in early to slip into the president's chair to see how it felt. After two years of errand-running, he became a space buyer, soon earned a reputation as a digger for facts and became the agency's top media man. When President Barton decided...
...nurse's aide was on duty in Sergeant Paight's room. Ditty waited while her father lay unconscious on the hospital bed. The nurse's aide left on an errand...
...years of pursuing the fast buck around the national capital, weedy Little John Maragon never seemed to be getting anywhere. He was an anxious glad-hander of big men, a hanger-on at the White House, a willing errand-runner and a great fellow for cadging free rides in official trains and limousines. But he lived in a middlebrow house in the suburbs, moaned about the cost of groceries, and looked like a part-time shoe clerk. Most of the capital was inclined to agree when his fellow countryman, Greek-born Promoter William G. Helis, said...
...Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...
...Pals. Hunt hotly denied that he had ever used any influence. He was "just an errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy...