Word: doorman
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...Titanic, changing into evening clothes for the event. William, another wastrel, named the principal rooms in his house after the metals on which his fortune was based; the Salon d'Or was reserved for love. Solomon, who kept a suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, gave the doorman $1,000 tips so that he could keep his Fierce-Arrow parked permanently near the door, and once gave the captain of an ocean liner $10,000 to turn around in the English Channel and go back for his daughter, who had missed the sailing...
TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott talked to dozens of Palestinians in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and found not one who disapproved of the terrorist raid that precipitated the Israeli invasion. "Good, good," declared a hotel doorman. "Three times more, that's what we need...
...Troubadour Bob Dylan ("something is happening here but you don't know what it is do you Mister Jones?") divorced him because she said that, among other things, he was a wife beater. Ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin, 39 now, lives in a sleek Manhattan highrise, complete with uniformed doorman. "We are not into sacrifice, martyrdom," he has written. Rubin and his roommate, Mimi Leonard, plan to get married in December. The most startling news is about Rennie Davis, who helped organize the Chicago Seven's convention mischief in 1968 and later blissed out on the Perfect Master Maharaj...
...trip from tawdry Times Square to the tidy Upper East Side of Manhattan takes only about ten minutes in light traffic. Toward 11 most nights, a driver in a blue and white van plies that route, delivering into the arms of a uniformed doorman a single pristine early City edition of tomorrow's New York Times?still warm from the presses, still faintly redolent of ink and hot lead. The newborn newspaper is quickly whisked to an upper floor, where a horrible fate awaits...
...Parker"-but they rarely tell the maid, "Mary, meet my friend Georgia." Doormen, among others, usually use Mr. or Mrs. when addressing the tenants, but expect to be called "Frank" or "Reuben." If a tenant in a democratic effusion should suggest that they both use first names, the doorman is often vaguely offended-something in the relationship has been disrupted...