Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa, fatefully true to form, Margaret promptly got a bookkeeper's job in a doctor's office, enrolled Sheila Joy in a local business college. But her resemblance to the FBI description, played up in the newspapers, aroused the suspicions of the office receptionist, who tipped off the police. Margaret's was an old case in the FBI files. She had been playing the same confidence game across the country and offshore under at least 22 different aliases since 1939. Among the accumulated charges: embezzlement in Honolulu, grand theft in Los Angeles, grand larceny in Vancouver...
Columbia Records, no slouch at thicket-hunting, bagged its latest prize in its own doorway. Barbara Eichbauer, 23, is a statuesque suburbanite who wandered into Manhattan looking for an advertising job and wound up instead as a Columbia receptionist. She had once done a little singing at a local inn back in Forest Hills, N.Y., and confided to fellow workers that she happened to have a privately made recording. Just about that time, Orchestra Leader Percy Faith, one of Columbia's stable, was looking for a young unvarnished voice to go with a young unvarnished song called What...
Knock Three Times. In Lexington, Ky., after an elderly man was told by a St. Joseph's Hospital receptionist that E. C. Jones could not have visitors but that he was "much improved," he seemed relieved, said. "I'm glad to hear it. I've been here ten days and couldn't learn that much from the doctors. I'm E. C. Jones...
Then Univac stepped in, sifted and sorted the answers of both sexes, spewed forth a couple of its favorites: John Caran, 28, a Los Angeles adman, and pretty, brown-eyed Barbara Smith, 23, a receptionist. In September the couple saw each other for the first time, before the People Are Funny camera, and, boasts Linkletter, "hit it off great...
Married. Ken Rosewall, 21, freckled Australian tennis prodigy who startled tennis handicappers in 1952 by upsetting U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, last month won the U.S. championship; and Wilma Mclver, 22, movie theater receptionist; in Brisbane...