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Pineapple pie-flavored serving ladies smile at jokes and quasi affectionate banter, but still give meager helpings of food. Even lavish compliments on the quality of the chow never clicit more than the two regulation eggs or one slice of London broil. These are the ladies whom the management has successfully intimidated. The presence of a man in a double-breasted suit behind the serving line often creates a whole row of pineapple pie-flavored ladies. The inveterate ones are usually either under 25 or over 80. They crave affection, but fear the whip...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Four Flavors of Serving Ladies | 12/14/1964 | See Source »

That leaves Mary Martin, which is a magnificent mercy for the more than 100 theater parties that are already committed to go to this threnody. Whether she is nostalgically sashaying through a cane-and-straw-hat routine, or spinning head over heels on a giant Roto-Broil of a torture wheel, or running her voice like a caress over a romantic ballad, she has the star quality that transcends marquees and animates legends. In her bearing, timing, suppleness, versatility, she is a flawless professional. Her only wrong move in Jennie is being in Jennie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Disenchanted Evening | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...Broil in Private. In all the cement pouring din, what of the well-to-do few who once had huge hunks of the Caribbean to themselves? They are still there, but in a new kind of resort away from the crowds where they can crawl off to their own undisturbed beach and broil in private peace. They frequently join in cooperatives, started either by a millionaire real estate developer or by a group of friends who pool their money for property on which to build a cottage colony. And since the co-ops are strictly screened, the members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean: Crowds in the Sun | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...serene Princess Grace is still just one of the girls. On a trip to Europe, reported strapping Olympic Sculler Champion Jack Kelly, he and some 22 of his crewmates dropped in on Sis and husband Prince Rainier, who put the crew up for the night, cheerfully hosted a hamburger broil, guzzled beer from the bottle with the boys. "She's still the same girl, a little more domesticated, but she fits in all right," reported Jack. "Her only trouble is that she doesn't speak French so well, but her husband speaks English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Better Food. Jetliners will have four galleys, which can turn out 280 cups of coffee per hour, and on overseas flights infra-red ovens that can broil 130 steaks an hour. New facilities on the jet (including rolling serving trays) will make it possible for attendants to prepare and serve a meal a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jets Across the U.S. | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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