Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the young J.B. West first went to work as assistant to the chief usher at the White House in the spring of 1941, he found his boss busy making a room ready for F.D.R.'s son John Roosevelt, who was just getting out of the hospital...
...very ill?" asked West. Indeed not, replied the chief usher. John had nothing more than a medium case of the sniffles. You see, he explained, "this goldfish bowl is made of magnifying glass...
West went on to become chief usher himself. Now retired, after 28 years of service to six First Families, he has applied his own magnifying glass to the everyday detail of life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and produced a dignified, yet down-home look at a series of tenants who moved in with a four-year lease but sometimes stayed on longer...
...wouldn't go back down there to live. For one thing I've grown out of it. I'm trying to get into nursing right now. Well, I have put in at the hospital and you train and at the same time you get paid. I wouldn't usher then, 'cause I wouldn't know if they'd want me day or night. A practical nurse, that's what I want...
Architect-Entrepreneur John Portman has done as much as anyone to turn Atlanta into a boom town-and a good-looking one at that. In the process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...