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...quarry, she had some persuading to do. "I didn't know him. Then, early in 2004, I was having lunch at the jet-set London restaurant San Lorenzo, and Mr. Valentino and his entourage walked in. So I sent over a note, and Carlos [Souza, the company's indefatigable majordomo] came over, and we talked...
...most famous act of defiance came in 1988, after Uday personally murdered Kamel Hanna Jajjo, Saddam's majordomo, for acting as a go-between for Saddam and one of his mistresses. Word of the scandal spread through Baghdad--even to Nouman, in prison. At her next court hearing, she stood up and delivered an impromptu speech. Uday had killed a man, she said, and he should be brought to trial and imprisoned. "I said what every Iraqi was thinking," she says. "I just had nothing to lose. What could they do to me that they were not already doing...
...about volunteerism), and Gore's from an administration that's made its living square in the political center. And there's presidential precedent: Bill Clinton's current secretary of defense, Bill Cohen, is a moderate Republican. Perhaps Gore should pre-emptively announce that he'd name Powell as State majordomo, and thereby undercut any advantage that Bush is seeking...
...exclusive is the Somerset Club, that one night in January 1945 when the club caught fire, the firemen ran through the front entrance before Joseph, the club’s legendary majordomo, ordered them to go around back though the servant’s entrance while he continued serving members their dinner. According to The Boston Post, “Although the fires created considerable excitement among the firemen and police who were detailed there, the club members were not disturbed in their dining room. They sat at dinner while the firemen fought on the first, second and third floors...
...Safire, as McCrary's majordomo, organized the "Draft Ike" rally at Madison Square Garden that helped persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for President...