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...deadline is still February 8, an earlier date than has been customary in the past. Application forms are available at the receptionist's desk in the Dean's office at Farlow House, 24 Quincy Street...
...Widow Wetmore. The year after Dr. Gibson became the spinster's heir, one of his patients died, and the doctor gave the widow, Ann Wetmore, a job as his receptionist. Lizzie Ayres was a bit jealous of Ann, but her fondness for Dr. Gibson did not cool: in 1949 she changed her will, making him the sole executor. In the spring of 1950 Gibson got a divorce, helped by Lizzie's testimony that his wife, from whom he was separated, had deserted him. That month, according to later testimony, he asked an official at Yale medical school...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...
...maple-shaded Marysville, Agent Adams discovered that, far from being clandestine, station WKGR was a widely known local enterprise. He had no trouble finding its studio offices on the second floor of a building on Marysville's main street, and he was greeted by a cheerful receptionist who readily took him in to see the illicit station's five owners and operators. General Manager Gene Kirby, 19, admitted, with modest pride, that WKGR had "just grown" from a ham station he had built in his family's backyard garage five years ago, when the general manager...
...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...