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...administration has compiled a list of possible areas for saving money on custodial services, including the discontinuation of maid service at the Quadrangle Houses and the bells desk at Currier House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiscal Cutbacks Could Include Bell's Desk at Currier House | 11/1/1974 | See Source »

...hard here at first," Tsitsos continues. "It was very difficult to speak English. My brother and I were thrown into an American school. I was in the fourth grade, and I had an old maid school teacher, and I couldn't understand a word she said. Everything was blamed on us. Somebody would throw firecrackers and fingers would point at us. We didn't know what was going on. The only time they really accepted us was when we beat them at their own game--at sports...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Alky Tsitsos: Unsung Hero of the Fall | 10/30/1974 | See Source »

...wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping pills. Tina's death was discovered by a maid as she brought breakfast to her bedroom, while Niarchos was asleep in another room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1974 | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...will ever develop much individuality (even if they manage to stay on the air the whole season), although it is logical to assume that the women who are pioneering in police work at the detective level these days are likely to be rather more idiosyncratic than the average meter maid. Certainly they are more interesting than Graves' jive-talking, hip-swinging, street-smart chick-a currently modish figure in blaxploitation movies. Dickinson, to be sure, is a little less stereotyped, but her show's creators are undecided as to whether she should be den mother or kid sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...frightening discontinuity. To establish a solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: So Well Remembered | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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