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"A doorman who has welcomed stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne and Omar Sharif into his hotel has brought his star-studded career to an end. Ted Whitcombe has retired from The Dorchester after 50 years, having had what he described as the &amp;quot;best job in the world&amp;quot;. He told the Daily Mail: &amp;quot;I began working here in 1959 during the heyday of The Dorchester. Film stars were real film stars back then. I&amp;#039;ve seen Elizabeth Taylor, who was always one of my favourites, walk into the hotel with six different husbands. &amp;quot;There were so many other guests that I admired and who were always pleasant such as John Wayne, Omar Sharif, Julie Andrews and Peter Sellers - who always kept us in fits. Charlton Heston was a regular. He would walk around the hotel with his shorts on and make the ladies swoon.&amp;quot; The 65-year-old said Luciano Pavarotti was another memorable guest, explaining: &amp;quot;He was a lovely man. What people don&amp;#039;t know is that his girth was so big he broke a chair in his suite soon after he arrived.&amp;quot; Whitcombe, who today attended a special party in his honour at the London hotel, also revealed that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were once asked to leave because they were &amp;quot;misbehaving with women in the corridors&amp;quot;. He advised aspiring doormen to exercise discretion and always smile. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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