Word: receptionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army had learned by experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
Personalities Gauged. By using this test on many healthy people and on mental cases diagnosed by experienced psychiatrists, the inventors of the game have learned the answers that are usual in different situations. A series of simple clerical manipulations (which his untrained receptionist can work out for him) gives a doctor a graphic picture of his patient's personality as the cards see it. The doctor need not even know what answers were given to individual questions...
...helped him make Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
Because a considerable number of Juniors and Seniors still have not turned in their proofs of photographs for the 1943 Album, a receptionist will be in Winthrop House Common Room today and tomorrow, it was announced last night...
Married. Lieut. John Rockefeller Prentice, 38, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller; and Abbie Blanche Cantrill. 29, receptionist in the Chicago law office which Prentice left to join the Army; in Scottsboro...