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...Receptionist. Unlike the 19th century European immigrants who believed that the streets of America were literally paved with gold, Gourin's émigrés know that the cobblestones are rough-but not so rough as at home. "You've got to work like a dog, do jobs that Negroes and North Africans do in France," says one returned Gourinois. "Still, practically everybody in Gourin has some friend or relative there." Each Christmas Gourin gets 10,000 greeting cards from New York-and many contain dollars...
Typical of the Gourin syndrome, Lozach was born there 36 years ago, left his father's bleak farm for lack of work, and became a "receptionist" in a Parisian meat factory. In 1952 he pulled up stakes and went west, became a bartender in his brother-in-law's New York restaurant, the Café Brittany, on Manhattan's West Side, and began learning the business from the bottom up. "Pigs' feet came first," he explains, "then on toward tête de veau." Today, lean and eager, and sporting a heavy gold ring...
Salisbury 55715 led to a small dental surgery clinic, where a shapely blonde receptionist welcomed the applicants. She got right down to the point. The mercenaries would fight as an all-white brigade. Each man would probably clear about ?150 a month, and "the closer to the danger area you get, the more money there will be for you." There would be no physical examinations, she told the hundred or so applicants who filed in every day, and only three weeks of military training: "We cannot afford more at this stage...
...opening sequence that roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...
Keisling, inexperienced in national politics and groggy from his efforts during Scranton's exhausting month-long campaign, batted out the document, then checked it with Pennsylvania's Attorney General Walter Alessandroni, Scranton's most trusted political adviser. A receptionist, one of several authorized to sign Scranton's name, did just that, and the letter went down to Barry. Scranton never read...