Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking policemen outside the arena if they understood English or French. They would just stare at me, point at my legs, and laugh, "Pantalones! Pantalones!" I was on the verge of breaking down and I soon began to make obscene gestures at the people laughing at me. Finally an usher at one of the entrances to the bullring took pity on me and went across the street to a firehouse, from which he graciously brought me an old, worn pair of uniform pants. They were about eight inches too big around the waist, and the zipper wouldn't work...
...family's personal flights aboard Government aircraft. Even the committee staff admitted that it was breaking new ground on this point. There was no precedent because Nixon was the first President ever to let his family use military airplanes for personal trips. J. Bernard West, who as chief usher managed the White House under five Presidents, recalled that on such trips Lyndon Johnson's wife and daughters always traveled by commercial aircraft, often in economy class. John F. Kennedy's wife and children used a family-owned airplane, the Caroline...
Sanders announced another new development for Crimson basketball: The 1974-75 season will usher in two floor generals at the IAB instead of the traditional one. Junior bigmen Lou Silver and Lenny Adams will serve as co-captains of a Harvard squad that will return nine of eleven players. Sanders picked the dual captains after a series of team ballotings ended in tie-votes...
Died. Billy DeWolfe, 67, veteran stage and screen comedian who started out in show biz as a theater usher; of cancer; in Los Angeles. DeWolfe and his drooping mustache appeared in numerous vapid Hollywood comedies (the first: Dixie, in 1943) before hitting the big time with an impersonation of Mrs. Murgatroyd, a matronly tippler, in Blue Skies (1946) and later with a performance as a stuffy diplomat in Call Me Madam (1953). His successes on the stage included his role as J.B. Biggley in the London production and New York revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...
...young entrepreneur's career began at age 14, when his mother, who owned a corset store in Brooklyn, cut off his allowance. He took odd jobs as a theater usher and a mail clerk, decided to skip college and become a talent agent. Geffen falsely claimed a drama degree in order to land a job in the William Morris Agency's mail room. "I came in an hour before anyone else so I could check all the incoming mail," he recalls. "I was just trying to intercept the letter from U.C.L.A. saying they had never heard...