Word: bellhops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome prints, then drive straight to their rooms, guided by a bicycle-mounted bellhop, without once stepping out of their cars...
...nimble idea man. For his first big account he coined the phrase "Bulova Watch Time." For Eversharp, Inc. he invented radio's $64 Question, saw the sum of money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest U.S. advertising agency...
...Donald Surine, 37, who was summarily fired by the FBI in 1950 for his eccentric handling of a white-slavery case. The subcommittee majority seemed dead set against Surine, who serves McCarthy as a devoted bellhop, chauffeur and muscleman, so the Senator switched him from the staff to his Senate payroll...
Meanwhile in Boston, before the giant Dartmouth game, a bellhop at the Big Green dance was overheard to say that Dartmouth students were more generous and better dancers than the Harvards, though the latter showed greater signs of sobriety than the invaders from Hanover. The Indians crushed Harvard on the gridiron the next afternoon...
...always comes when he packs up a couple of suits, throws in his stacks of unanswered mail, and heads for the station. A few days later, a waitress in Tucson is apt to find herself in deep conversation with a kindly, grey-haired gentleman from the East; or a bellhop in Paris will note the loquacious American who talks with such intensity in the hotel lobby; or a group of students in Germany will hear a lecture delivered with much waggling of eyebrows and flourishing of hands by a distinguished author from...