Word: busboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Charles Skouras walked into the new cathedral, looked up approvingly at the chandeliers (redesigned twice before they satisfied him) and the huge painting of the tree of Jesse on the ceiling. Said Skouras, who began his career in the U.S. as a hotel busboy: "This is my appreciation for what this country has done for me. It made me what I am. You build up things and lose your soul, and what do you accomplish...
...half a century; of a heart attack; at his country estate near New Paltz, N.Y. (which he bequeathed as a retirement place for chefs). Never a chef himself, Oscar had an artist's passion for selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals...