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...round!" Louis watched the set-to while recovering from a fight of his own. In October he underwent thoracic surgery to repair a ballooned aorta, and after five months in a Houston hospital he is now convalescing at his modest Las Vegas home. Louis, who had been an official greeter at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas before his operation, insists he is "impatient to return to work." For now, the Brown Bomber is consigned to a wheelchair and two rounds of physical therapy each...
...advised business ventures, a costly divorce and his penchant for high living led to a financial squeeze. By 1956 he owed $1.25 million in taxes, In 1970 Louis was briefly committed to a psychiatric hospital by his family. The ex-champ eventually went to work as an official greeter for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Last November Louis had open-heart surgery in Houston, where he is still recuperating...
Harvard's "official greeter" finally said goodbye Saturday night...
Many people have speculated on what the mayor of Cambridge does Some have described the job as that of the city's "official greeter," since all the hiring and firing and budget considerations are given to the city manager, who is selected by the Council. On the books the job is called "part-time," but Barbara Ackermann finds herself making it a full-time task. As chairman of the School Committee and of the City Council, she is responsible for two sets of meetings. Very concerned about the problems of the city, she considers working with the state--on behalf...
...chargé in Moscow when Sino-Soviet relations were descending to their invective-filled worst. Garrulous Tang Ming-chao got a degree from the University of California and edited a small pro-Communist daily in New York City before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked up a degree at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in the 1940s and a taste...