Word: valets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried it back to his room. Asked why he did not order from room service, Boettcher demanded indignantly: "And pay the prices we ask here?" Frequently, he would be spotted behind a screen in a dingy tailor shop while his trousers were being pressed. The Brown Palace's valet fees were too high...
...earned about $100 a match. Now he has an act. Last week, in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...
...reputation helps make a lot of false favorites. Arcaro is an unsound betting proposition. Eddie himself used to bet on his horses, says he gave it up because "I don't think you can beat them things." His income is about $2,300 a week, minus $340 for valet and agent fees. (Says Eddie: "After taxes, it's just a livin...
...Paradine Case (Selznick) stars Gregory Peck as a gifted, happily married English lawyer who falls in love with the client he is defending. Mrs. Paradine (Valli) is accused of poisoning her blind husband, and Lawyer Peck recklessly sets out to pin the crime on the dead husband's valet (Louis Jourdan). In his infatuation for his client, he is incapable of imagining that she may be guilty. In his jealousy, he suspects an affair between the valet and the accused lady. Making a headlong effort to defend her, he brings on a suicide and his own virtual ruin...
...Walter Reuther got up at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington and spoke the mouthful of the week. With a boyish grin, he remarked: "I think Henry is a lost soul. People who are not sympathetic with democracy in America are influencing him. Communists perform the most complete valet service in the world. They write your speeches, they do your thinking for you, they provide you with applause and they inflate your ego as often as necessary...