Word: receptionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Date. Then, on the day that the Senate convened in January 1961, Senator Clinton Anderson introduced his new blonde receptionist to Jackson. She was Helen Hardin, a divorcee, daughter of the president of American Gypsum Co. in Albuquerque and graduate of Scripps College and Columbia University, where she earned a master's degree in contemporary literature, specializing in Virginia Woolf. A date for tea in the Senate dining room led to bicycling dates and to marriage in December. Jackson was 49; his wife...
...began in a Village coffeehouse in 1961 where Jo, then a 25-year-old receptionist from Chicago, met Dolph and Teddy. The three hit it off, and the group, including Micah, agreed to live together as a free-style "family," sharing everything, including sex, in Jo's Washington Square Village apartment. Some shared more than others: Jo paid most of the family's communal expenses out of her $60,000 yearly income from stock dividends and a trust fund set up by her father, who owned a sausage-casing company. "We had somewhat of an open family," says...
Though willowy and beautiful, Bobbie Arnstein was one woman who had made it on brains in the sexist hierarchy of Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. From a receptionist's job, which she took in 1960 shortly after leaving high school, she rose to become Hefner's executive secretary for eleven years. As his alter ego and chief of staff, she saw to a diverse range of the head Playboy's needs, from matters of substance and budget right down to scheduling his private jet and arranging overtime for the butlers in the baronial 100-room Playboy...
Many of the remaining pieces make ingenious use of clay, transparent plastics or just plain pencil; only a few, like some cluttered and drab collages, are disappointing. As though filling in for an absent receptionist, an old woman of papier mache sits at her door-side table. The woman stares catatonically out of pale blue eyeballs and you can sidle right up and stare back without feeling embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals...
...health receptionist is one of 250 degree candidates among the 6000 students enrolled in Harvard's Extension School. Founded in 1910 by a grant from Boston's Lowell Institute, the extension school has grown from a small program tailored to the needs of Boston teachers who wanted certification to a community-wide educational facility. The extension school now offers 136 courses and, after the College, has more students than any other division of the University...