Word: greeterism
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Novosibirsk Secretary of the Communist Party is tough, wiry, 44-year-old Mikhail Kulagin. He looks and acts like a cross between Jimmy Cagney and a Rotary greeter. Politically, he is a sort of Russian Jim Farley, slapping backs, shaking hands. Everyone knows him, wants a private word with him. He sent regards to his old pals, Hank Wallace and Don Nelson, who met him during their travels in Russia...
...swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
...Washington last week scouting the chances of an army commission-maybe a full colonelcy, he figured-was Grover A. Whalen, the impeccably double-breasted, super-tailored, ex-greeter-of-celebrities for Manhattan, ex-president of the New York World's Fair, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Officier d'Instruction Publique with gold palms (French), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Italy), Commander of the Order of the Crown (Rumania), holder of the Royal Victorian Order (British), the Order of Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), the Chinese Order of the Jade, the Hungarian Cross of Merit...
...national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...first name because he was born in New York City on June 2, 1886, the marriage day of President Grover Cleveland. In 1917, he hitched his wagon to the rising star of Mayor John F. Hylan, became a figure in politics and a great success as a civic greeter (of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, hundreds of other personages). After that Grover Whalen slipped easily into a $100,000-a-year berth at Wanamaker's store, returned to civic affairs in the Mayor Walker regime when he became police commissioner and won his immortal epitaph...