Word: waterboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are turning back the clock, if not the crowds at the Brattle Theatre this week where Gunga Din, older than some of next year's Advanced Standing students, is making a comeback. This story of the waterboy who made good has passed well into its second decade, and it is a pleasure to report that the excitement and humor which pulled one's ancestors into the theaters have aged less than co-star Cary Grant...
...Such a Pipsqueak As I." As George tells it, his biggest splash in the news was the result of his doing a favor for a friend. After he quit the commissionership in 1938 and went to work recouping his fortune in private business, he continued to serve as unsalaried waterboy, choreboy and funnyman, first to Franklin Roosevelt, then to Harry Truman. In 1946 Truman asked him to serve on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "I must have been off my rocker," George recalls. "I should have said, 'Why pick on me? Let's load this onto...