Word: chef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired by the French for his "patriotic" activities. After schooling in Hué and Saigon, Ho (then known as Nguyen Tat Thanh) headed for Europe in 1912 as a cabin boy on a French steamer. After a brief apprenticeship at London's Carlton Hotel under the famed chef Escoffier, Ho drifted on to Paris...
...make the museum a center for young artists, Maeght had a cluster of cottages erected, complete with music rooms, studios, servants' quarters and a fine French chef. Given a trial run last December by a trio of Americans, the project proved a great success. One, Painter Ellsworth Kelly, so responded to the luxuriant Riviera landscape that his style underwent a major transformation. Maeght eagerly awaits his next group of artists-in-residence in September: "I hope to produce explosive encounters by putting them in contact...
Giinter Grass, Litt. D. German novelist, playwright, poet, sculptor, graphic artist, drummer and chef. You have persistently and uncompromisingly sought to probe beneath the perplexing surface of German life...
...high spots," and the Peabody board then proceeded to honor eleven. Among them: CBS Reports, Robert Saudek's Profiles in Courage (NBC), ABC News Commentator William Lawrence, the color documentary The Louvre (NBC), Joyce Hall for sponsoring Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC), and Julia Child for The French Chef (WGBH Boston...
...European polish might have seemed a liability in American politics, but he knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when...