Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Lunch. Last week Dr. Sills was in practice in Plains with his wife-nurse-receptionist-bookkeeper. They were as busy as they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices...
Middle of the Night. Fredric March as an aging widower who becomes involved with his 24-year-old receptionist (Kim Novak), in Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky's most, sustained and mature work to date...
...women, he finds himself a widower. What to do with the rest of his life? At first he simply works, works, works. After a while he starts spending time at his married daughter's house, playing with the baby. Then one day his pretty, 24-year-old receptionist (Kim Novak), a nice, mixed-up kid whose marriage has recently gone on the rocks, takes a fit of hysterics, and the boss decides to give her a little fatherly attention...
...waxing bee. Few days later, Washington newsmen and TV crews crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers in her desk drawer...
...year Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote South Pacific) Pat took off for Mills College near San Francisco. It seemed a safe distance from Cressy. She worked as a typist, did odd jobs at school, was a receptionist in a Chinese restaurant. She bounced on to Modesto Junior College, then to San Francisco City College and to San José State. She studied voice, biology, philosophy, art, art history, woodworking. During her two years at San José State she sang in a small nightclub on weekends, and she began to develop a style. Says Cartoonist Walt ("Pogo") Kelly...