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Business as Usual. Chicagoans read the blaze as a message written brazenly across the sky by the smooth-running, omnipresent crime syndicate. The Fireside's proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record...
...native land. The son of a clerk in the Royal West African Frontier Force, Zik passed up Oxford or Cambridge to enroll in West Virginia's Storer College. Supplementing his original stake (his father's $1,200 retirement gratuity) with jobs as a coal miner, busboy and dishwasher, Zik spent nine years in the U.S., wound up with an M.A. in anthropology and government from the University of Pennsylvania...
...side. From Rebecca's father, Orson Welles, whose headquarters have long been in Europe, came word that he would gladly play nanny to both children until the crisis was over. In a White Plains hotel suite, Haymes, Rita and Khan had a cozy chat. Reported a busboy who had just served them chicken sandwiches: "Everybody seemed happy." A few hours later, everybody was. Finding no evidence that Rita was a bad mother, the judge gave Rebecca and Yasmin back...
...inequity lingers on. And the officials justify their inaction with worthy sentiments about not wishing a cut in the wages of town boys. The College workers, of course, do not advocate such a cut, either. Ninety-four cents an hour plus a meal is a fair wage for the busboy job. The student merely wants his pay raised to this approved level...
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...