Word: receptionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dapper doctor was found crouching behind a furnace, the women were led back to bed. With his secretary, maid and receptionist, the doctor was carted off to jail. So ended a raid on one of Manhattan's biggest abortion mills...
Lieut. Commander Winchell, U.S.N.R. (Retired), gobbed for the Navy in World War I. He was a yeoman-receptionist to the late Rear Admiral Marbury Johnston in the New York City customs house...
...tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky. In last week's wedding publicity...
There is a dignified, medium-sized law office in downtown Manhattan, with walnut-paneled walls, shaded lights and a quiet air of wellbeing. The receptionist has worked there for 30 years. Half a dozen of the 70 employes have been with the firm for more than 20 years. When the telephone girls answered "Miller, Owen, Otis & Bailly," it was with the knowledge that they were naming one of Manhattan's most distinguished firms. With New York's ex-Governor Miller as senior partner, with celebrated advocates spotted all through its long history, with a reputation for being...
Members of Washington's Little Congress (secretaries of Senators and Representatives) assembled near the Capitol to watch curly-headed Senator Tom Connolly of Texas crown bonnie Bonnie Patton, 21-year-old daughter of Texas Congressman Nat Patton and receptionist at the Congressional ladies' cloakroom, as this year's "Miss Capitol Hill." Then, 150 strong, they sped to Manhattan on their eighth annual Easter outing, called duly upon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whom they found in a reminiscent mood. Sighed he, harking back to his Congressional days: "I once had a good secretary down there, too. But I lost...