Word: chef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sick Old Man. King Norodom listened to the radio playback, tucked into a square meal prepared by D'Artagnan, the best chef in Cambodia, and then got into his blue station wagon to change palaces with his parents. His father, 59-year-old Prince Suramarit, has long been his close adviser; his mother, Princess Norodom Suramarit, is a handsome woman who has long kept a sharp, appraising eye upon her royal son's dancing girls and political enemies. "I am a sick old man," proclaimed the new King, getting into the spirit of his son's abdication...
...sketches, this is a fine recruiting film for the confidence game, representing the crooks engaged in it as particularly enchanting, and the life itself no mean whirl of the most sumptuous luxuries that the Riviera can offer, including the Monte Carlo jail with its beautiful sea-view and famous chef...
...Minh turned up in London, joined a secret society called "The Overseas Workers." Despite his poor health, he shoveled snow, stoked coal, and got a menial job cleaning silverware at London's Carlton Hotel restaurant. The great Escoffier was then master chef of the Carlton, and to hear the Communist legend-makers tell it, Escoffier took a fancy to the young Asian and called him over for a chat. "Put aside your revolutionary ideas," offered Escoffier to Ho, "and I will teach you the art of cooking." Loftily, Ho Chi Minh declined...
...practical jokes, even when they are on him (his companions once brought along a wired blanket and gave him a tooth-tingling shock when he sat on it). At a party after he became president of General Motors, everyone thought it a great idea to present him with a chef's outfit to kid the boss-the small-town boy who made good-about one of his early jobs...
...Cecil M. Dunn, 48, was hired away from RCA-Estate Appliance Corp., of Hamilton, Ohio, to become president of St. Louis' Magic Chef, Inc., biggest U.S. stovemaker. He replaces Arthur Stock-strom, 62, who becomes board chairman. Dunn started in the stove business 27 years ago as a door-to-door salesman for Estate, became Estate's president in 1952 after it was taken over by Noma Electric Corp. (now Northeast Capital Corp.). Dunn pulled Estate out of the red with a sweeping cost-control and product-improvement program. This year he negotiated the sale of the company...