Word: busboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven Jars to Satisfaction. Yet, for all his fame, Soule was never himself a chef, though he began developing a taste for fine food early in life and until the end glowingly recalled his mother's specialty: puree of salt codfish, served lukewarm. He was a busboy in Biarritz at 14, by 23 had become the youngest captain of waiters (at Le Mirabeau) in Paris. In 1939 he came to New York to manage the French restaurant at the World's Fair, in 1941 opened Le Pavilion, later added a second Manhattan restaurant, La Cote Basque...
...attention. When he walks into a Manhattan restaurant, hardly anyone notices. But he notices everything. Is the decor adequate? Does the headwaiter seem anxious to get on to someone else? Is there any single offering out of the ordinary on the menu? Is the wine overpriced? Is the busboy attentive to such details as discarded swizzle sticks and filled ashtrays? Are the service plates set just right? Then, having eaten and paid for his meal, Craig Claiborne, food and restaurant editor of the New York Times, goes on his way, full of sharp impressions...
First in Johannesburg, and then the Rhodesias, Sigauke took jobs, from busboy to boxer, until he finally landed a well-paying position as a traveling salesman, peddling clothing to retailers all over Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. "That job brought status because I owned a car," he says. "I drove an Opel and then a Biscayne for two years, and I learned to know every road and every Mozambican in the Rhodesias." On one return trip to Mozambique he was arrested by the authorities, who could not believe that an African could earn enough money...
...Begonia Day, and Steve Canyon Day at the New York World's Fair-and also Art Buchwald Day, so proclaimed by Fair Boss Robert Moses because a) Buchwald was a busboy at the 1939 fair, b) Buchwald was the only reporter who showed up at a 1960 Moses press conference in Rome and well, anyway, Buchwald is syndicated in some 200 papers and who knows what could happen? What did happen is Art took along his father, Joe Buchwald, 71. "You think I want to go?" muttered Joe. "A man in the curtain business should lose money...
...Kimball tries to be properly cryptic as the mysterious psychiatrist, Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly, though I found his mannerisms a bit tiring after a while. Dustin Hoffman might be acceptable as Peter Quilpe had not some idiot decided to dress him up and have him act like a teenage busboy at a summer camp. Even if Peter is little more than an eager lad beginning a career in the cinema, he has a lot more substance than Hoffman brings to the part. Paul Benedict, a sort of anchor-man in this repertory group, gives the audience some good comedy...