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...administrative temp jobs, up from just a few before 2000. Maria Raimo of Elite Nannies in New York City says, "Male applications are way up in the past year, what with all the layoffs. I have people who used to work at IBM and other corporations registering as housemen, companions for the elderly...
Lady Bird has already introduced Pat Nixon to Hopkins' domestic counterpart, Chief Usher J. Bernard West, who presides over some 70 cooks, butlers, maids, elevator operators, electricians and carpenters. Under his overall supervision are five housemen who constantly wax and buff the floors; a full-time window cleaner who has 147 windows and eight skylights to cope with; and three flower arrangers who keep busy adorning the twelve guest rooms. After 27 years of White House ceremonies-including J.F.K.'s funeral and Lynda Bird's wedding-West says with equanimity: "We never have crises...
...maitre d'hotel, two housekeepers, four butlers, six cooks, a valet, five doormen, five housemen, a head laundress, a pantry woman, eight maids, eight engineers, four carpenters, four electricians, three plumbers, two storekeepers, a painter, ten laborers and eleven gardeners...
...Clientele. As it grew older. Roseland became even more decorous. In the '30s Brecker banned jitterbugging, and the number of hostesses steadily dwindled, finally (in 1950) disappeared. Tuxedoed bouncers (politely known as "housemen") prowled through the crowd to keep order. Last week's grand opening of the new Roseland (at 52nd Street, west of Broadway) suggested that henceforth it might be tougher to keep order...
Opening night was riotous even by Broadway standards. Housemen and city cops had a hard time handling the shoving, yelling crowd fighting to get in. The new Roseland-a former roller-skating rink-cost $2,250,000 to build, can accommodate 5,000 people (more than twice the former capacity), and offers a purple-and-cerise tentlike décor that creates a definite harem effect. However, the emphasis is still on good dance music (next attraction: Xavier Cugat); rock-'n'-roll is banned, and Owner Brecker hopes to move on to a whole new type of clientele...