Word: greeterism
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...dawn-greeter at parties, a perky, tiny (5 ft. 3½ in.), glistening figure on the podium, a cheerful and gentle master of his art. He built the Houston Symphony to 90 by adding a crucial six string players, built attendance to 333,000 last season by playing a rich but likable repertory. His best talent is for teaching. When cellists falter, he does not hesitate, but takes the instrument himself and says: "If you don't mind an old fellow's advice, sweetheart, don't you think that's better...
...here to greet anybody," snapped New York City's official greeter. Public Events Commissioner Richard C. Patterson Jr., as he strode past a clutch of curious newsmen in the lobby of Manhattan's Barclay Hotel one morning last week. "I'm just here to see that the lady has sufficient police protection." The lady-South Viet Nam's Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-coolly assured Patterson that her protection was just fine. Besides, she added, "God is in my corner...
Sharing the Plunger. The most conspicuous greeter, as Kennedy arrived at California's Castle Air Force Base, was Democratic Governor Pat Brown, who needs all the help he can get from all the Kennedys he can lure West in his re-election fight against Richard Nixon. Aft er an overnight stay in Yosemite National Park, the President ignited explosives to break ground for a dam and reservoir in the $500 million San Luis water project in the San Joaquin Valley - a vital link in Brown's plan to meet the multiplying water needs of Southern California...
...before the Seattle fair opened, the one familiar symbol of another great fair-indeed of another great era-should say goodbye. Dead last week of a stroke at 75 was Grover Michael Aloysius Augustine Whalen, president of the 1939 New York World's Fair, chief greeter of the world's celebrities who came to New York during a pulsating quarter-century, inventor of the ticker-tape parade-the Host of New York...
Waiting around Chandigarh airport, officials of India's Punjab State knew that a distinguished American would soon arrive-but they were far less certain about just who he was and what he was up to. They had heard the word Sargent, and at least one greeter bustled about asking whether it was a name or a military rank. They had also heard that he was coming to explain a new U.S. assistance program-which they automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother...