Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rusty Greenhood is favored to take the dive against Chef Sagenhahn and George Dana. Last Year's leader and League champion has been seen around the pool three times a week for several months. His diving-mate will be Roulding Burbank '28, who last year sent the spectators and himself into convulsions with his horizontal entries...
...World's Fair in New York, 34 staff members of the Rumanian Restaurant left for their country's colors, and without Neagu, Rumania's most famous chef (now to be an Army cook), the restaurant closed...
...Pastry Chef Hans Rohrbeck in 1904 used to bake the Kaiser's Streusselkuchen every morning in Kranzler's, a royally appointed Unter den Linden confectionery. The Kaiser's taste then was for Kuchen with only the very largest Streussel possible on top of it. Rohrbeck came to the U. S. in 1908, became a citizen in 1913, lost his job this year after some 30 years as a pastry chef in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit. When even his yum-yum recipe for Streusselkuchen* failed to find him a post over the radio, Hans Rohrbeck went...
During the next four years he had various field commands and in 1906 he became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris. In 1912, when Joffre was promoted to the Supreme War Council, Gamelin was chosen as Joffre's chef de cabinet, or military secretary. During this time the French General Staff was discussing (but only discussing) the possibility of a German violation of Belgian neutrality to attack France. Gamelin made a study of it and wrote out a defense of such an attack. That was the germ of Joffre...
...houses a staff of seven men. Besides Secretary Strakacz, who plays bridge with him on long jumps, and Piano-tuner Joubert, who carries around an atlas and answers questions about the populations and industries of the towns they visit, the most indispensable member of this staff is his private chef. With romantic Paderewski, food is a romantic passion. He is partial to lamb, chicken and turkey, worships caviar, pheasant and sweet champagne. If he is about to visit a town famous for some particular dish, he always telegraphs ahead to have some of it specially prepared for him. On concert...