The Times has a lovely piece of writing about Betty Wales, a receptionist at Conde Nast magazines since the 1940s.

A great beauty in her day — the pictures we saw were astonishing — she seemed blithely confident that her job in life was, as one former colleague put it recently, to enjoy being a girl. “Oh, you know, your 20s,” she once told another editorial assistant. “You get engaged so many times.”

Betty Wales was laid off last week….