Word: busboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MIAMI, Fia,-Court of Crimes Judge Wayne Allen today gave Rudy Vallee benefit of a "reasonable doubt," and dismissed charges of assault and battery brought against the crooner by a busboy in a Miami night club...
...busboy, Dillard Borden, 17, charged Vallee had hit him on the arm last Saturday night when he accidentally had brushed a stack of empty trays against the orchestra leader's back...
Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...
...Author, Small, mild-mannered, versatile Ludwig Bemelmans worked first in the U. S. as busboy in a Chinese restaurant. His last restaurant job was managing Manhattan's famed Hapsburg restaurant, whose walls he covered with his own paintings. The author of two charming children's books (Hansi, The Golden Basket], illustrated, as is this one, by himself, he has written and drawn for Vogue, Story, Harper's Bazaar, FORTUNE, designed the stage decor for Noah, decorated the studio of Jascha Heifetz. He is now reported "somewhere in Ecuador on horseback...
...April day, six years ago when Herbert Hoover was President, Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times...