"It's a machine," said Melody Williamson, chief concierge at the Palace.

The human rights agency said the man was chief concierge at the building, where white-gloved operators stand beside each elevator with their hands folded before them.

The Citizen Commissary had been so sure--so was the chief concierge of the Abbaye even now; and the men of the Surete!

"I even received a call from a prison that was interested in having me come and speak to them," said Michael Romei, chief concierge at the Waldorf Towers in New York.

"I've been a concierge since 1973 and no one has ever asked for a tour of Silicon Valley," said Tom Wolfe, chief concierge at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

"We need to know what the guest is like, their psychology, what makes them feel comfortable," says Mario Cinti, chief concierge at the Lowell Hotel.

"We have already informed those guests who come every Christmas and ask for a tree in their room," Kathy Langley, chief concierge at the Ahwahnee, said.

In 2002 Nicolaides had published Concierge Confidential, a collection of fictional short stories based on his experience of having worked for seven years as chief concierge at Melbourne's Rydges Hotel.

Elaine M. Oksner, president of the American Clefs d'Or and chief concierge at the Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., also a classroom teacher, came to say farewell.

Frederick Bigler, then chief concierge at their hotel, the New York Palace, found an armored vehicle for each of them.