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...whupp through the revolving door into the Victorian lobby of Brown's Hotel, Dover Street, London W.I. To an experienced counterespionage agent, his disguise probably would have appeared too perfect, and therefore suspicious. But there were no M15 types on duty at Brown's ?only a myopic receptionist too vain to wear her National Health Service spectacles and a concierge who had been with the house for 43 years and certainly knew a well-to-do Yank tourist when he saw one: blue suit, rep tie, white handkerchief folded so that exactly half an inch protruded from the breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Guide to Temple Fielding | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Chairman of the firm, Arthur M. Shain '40, keeps his Harvard Business School diploma on the wall of his office, as do some other Business School alumni in the firm. Shain's Harvard yearbook is kept on the office receptionist's desk, according to Kuscher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Harvard' Firm Prints Disclaimer | 1/9/1969 | See Source »

...girls in the brick dorms must "do bells"--answer dorm phones and serve as a receptionist--usually for an hour each week. The Radcliffe Redbook states: "Shared responsibilities for dormitory functioning are considered an important part of learning at Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cabot Hall Fines Bells Forgetters | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...Gallery showroom is stuffed with pictures. Shoulder to shoulder, frame to frame, they overwhelm the viewer as he enters. Yet there is no ex-Cliffie receptionist to threaten you at the door, no sickening plunge into wall-to-wall restraint and exclusiveness like one finds in New York's big galleries. The drawers and drawers of prints are open to anyone. You may shudder at shuffling and bending beautiful Goyas as you look through the stacks of prints. But at least you can see them for yourself with no hassle, look, touch, browse as long as you want...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Roten Gallery | 10/21/1968 | See Source »

...himself making his collect call on top of a mad melee of still photographs and film clips punctuated by blanks on the screen. The film wheels on crazily in visual free association above the voices of the cool boy on the phone, the confused operator, and the indignant presidential receptionist...

Author: By Besty Nadas, | Title: Films at the Vac | 10/16/1968 | See Source »

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