Word: chef
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bunn's Boy-Angelo Henry ("Hank") Luisetti, son of a restaurant chef, is the No. 1 product of this extraordinary coaching regime. He is considered so superior to all other basketball players this year that he is one of the few basketball subjects over which there is no controversy. Born & bred on that little strip of San Francisco waterfront that produced Base-bailers Joe Di Maggio, Frank Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri, Basketballer Luisetti is rated one of the best-of-all-time in basketball. A clever passer, spectacular dribbler, amazingly accurate marksman (with either hand or both...
First defendants to file before sharp-eyed Willis Van Devanter in 28 years were a restaurant manager named Earl Frederick Palmer and his chef, Gabriel Morosi, charged with conspiracy and the passing of an altered $10.000 Treasury note which had been part of $2,000,000 stolen from United States Trust Co. of New York and Bank of Manhattan Co. in 1935-36. After tilting several times with celebrated Defense Attorney Samuel Leibowitz during the four days of the trial, Justice Van Devanter settled down to make his charge to the jury...
...Publisher Joseph Hamblen Sears (president, 1904-18, of D. Appleton & Co.. later head of his own firm) desiring a chef, saw an advertisement, called at the address given, met a short, stocky, quiet, efficient-looking servant, whom he hired on the spot. For 14 years in Mr. Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused...
...FINER COOKING-X. M. Boulestin -Oxford University Press ($5). Discourse by a learned London chef on the "Ninth Art," filled with literary and historical allusions and 308 recipes of everything from soups to sundries. Two volumes: one with decorations by J. E. Laboureur, for the lady of the house; the other, of recipes only, for the cook...
Died. Charles Scotto, 51, famed chef at Manhattan's Hotel Pierre; after a kidney operation; in New York City. Born in Monte Carlo, he was in his youth a close friend and favorite pupil of famed French Chef Auguste Escoffier, lived to become president of the American Culinary Federation, parent organization of all U. S. chef and gourmet societies...