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...signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around, after the signing, to thank him, he had disappeared." The Ballards' prayer: "Let us have every good thing, including money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles were a tuning, its doorman and its conductor, Londoners both, celebrated a common birthday. Augustus ("Gus") Wade, a short, military Britisher with grey handle bar mustaches, who for 45 years has been as much a part of Carnegie Hall as the plaster lyre that adorns its ceiling, was 83. John Barbirolli was 39. Together the birthday...
Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...
...nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich kid (Charles Peck), plan a gang war. When the rich kid's old man tries to have Tommy pinched for copping his son's watch Tommy slashes him with...
Rooms on other floors of the Clinic building are used for examination of patients. To take care of them all, a quick-acting system is necessary. After Joe, the Mayos' doorman, helps a new patient through the bronze doors, a girl clerk registers the name, address, profession and the name of the personal physician, if any, who sent him. The patient then gets a number and a brown envelope to hold the reports of the diagnoses which he will undergo. An illuminated, numbered call board notifies him in what room and at what instant a Mayo diagnostician will...
...Rzeszów, Poland, twice-widowed Magdalena Niedzialek, 107, announced her engagement to Jan Brzezie, 78, pensioned City Hall doorman...