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...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...
...called Molotov because he sometimes hinted vaguely at being of Russian origin and because he was jubilant over Russian victories. He was called the Mayor of Broadway because of his equally vague and Bunyanesque tales about the life he led in New York. Actually he had been a busboy in a nightclub...
Cornhusker State. "This shouldn't happen to a donkey," groaned Nebraska's Democratic leaders over the campaign (no rootin', no tootin') waged by homespun George W. Olsen, their elderly, circle-squaring busboy candidate (TIME, Sept. 25). It didn't. Winner: G.O.P.'s solid Governor Dwight Griswold...
...insult the Copacabana's boss ("He can't even spell da name!"). He may insult the menu ("Dere goes a load of ice with three olives. Twelve-fifty for dat load. Somebody's got to pay for da cocktail room!"). He may insult labor when a busboy knocks over a chair ("He's gotta pick it up. No one else can touch it. Union!"). He may challenge the whole situation when a microphone is lowered toward his expectant and famous nose ("Go ahead! Touch da nose! Just once! I'll sue da jernt for every...
...hospitals and improvised morgues which were turned into charnel houses for the night, 484 dead were counted; it was the most disastrous U.S. fire since 571 people were killed in Chicago's Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...