Word: valete
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Slapstick & Surgery. In private life, many comedians are sad sacks. Not Danny. Friends who telephone his Hollywood home or his twelve-room Park Avenue apartment often hear the answering voice of a Japanese houseboy, an Italian cook, a Negro valet, an English butler or a Russian piano teacher, patiently wait for Danny to call himself to the phone...
Then Mrs. Gait appeared. "She's a looker," said the presidential doorkeeper. "He's a goner," said the presidential valet. Sometimes as the Colonel dutifully trailed the lovers on their walks, they would glance back at him, "she with the frank laughter of a woman who is enjoying the predicament of both men. She was having a wonderful time...
...Plaza).Second triumph: train reservations. Said the Prince when he heard reservations were hard to get: "Charter a train for us!" In fact he settled for space aboard two different public trains on two different roads. Southward bound: Prince, Princess, daughter, two grandchildren, a governess, and a valet...
...Australia unions blacklisted a brigadier for blacklisting his former valet (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...