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Editorial Tut. In Washington, the State Department employes' official publication (The Diplomat) deplored the fact that persons to whom secrets of international importance were entrusted could not be trusted with the State Department cafeteria's silverware...
...cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops: warmer socks and faster mail. She left to see the rest of the country. As with her own countrymen, Britons did not know where her curiosity and energy would take...
Free Unless Delighted. Los Angeles will miss slender, square-jawed Clifford Clinton. In 1931, after depression rocked his seven San Francisco cafeterias, he moved there with $2,000 to open Brookdale Cafeteria, where each customer's check has an IMPORTANT NOTICE: "You may pay what you wish or dine free unless delighted." Hunger has always horrified him since boyhood days when, with his Salvation Army parents, he lived in China and saw gaunt Chinese devouring an oatmeal poultice his father had put on an old man's carbuncle...
During an early period of 90 days, 10,000 broke and hungry people ate free at Brookdale cafeteria. From 800 paid meals a day, patronage jumped to 16,000. The record is over 26,000 in his two present cafeterias. Now Clinton has 600 employes-"Associates" who have bargaining rights, a share in profits, paid vacations, medical service, music lessons, inspirational literature, little interest in joining unions...
Pacific Seas. Clinton's second cafeteria is the Pacific Seas. He and his wife selected tropical materials for it in Hawaii last fall. Its giant bamboo came from Formosa. Its façade has a 15-foot waterfall; inside is a goldfish-filled brook. Fantastic lights combine plastic and neon flowers. Many Californians think it's grand...