Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Harvard cooks come to work at 7:30 o'clock in the morning and leave at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon, getting in eight or nine hours of work. The Council recommended that the cooks be allowed to come to work later, since it took only one chef to prepare the breakfast...
...like that car. It was mighty nice of you to sell it to me." Top nightclub of Anchorage is the Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place has no orchestra (manpower shortage) but displays an elegant juke box-and the prettiest Civil Service employes in Anchorage...
...pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where the demoniac chef is in the act of snatching the bunnies alive from the very roadside. Emett's crazily antiquated rolling stock often shows the most charmingly ornamental cabinet work, and for anyone who has ever felt the obsessive fascination of pastoral narrow-gauge lines, with grass and weeds between the ties...
...remind "columnist" Cunningham of that old Chicago proverb" "Man who criticize chef should first learn to boil water...
...that more than a kitchen cleanup was needed. "These conditions," said he, "were merely a visible symptom of an administrative breakdown." He made a few recommendations: 1) superintendents should be "able hospital administrators" not necessarily experienced in mental hospitals; 2) food should be prepared under a dietitian, not a chef whose only experience has been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged...