Ocupation: Columnist
Life: February 18, 1899 - January 22, 1985
Birthday: February 18
Death: January 22
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
source: Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”
topic: Farewell, Thinking, Brain, Administrative, Administrative Professionals, Administrative Professionals Day, Great Ones