Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real ascendancy began when he became Assistant Chef de Cabinet under his Godfather Leygues at the Ministry of Marine. Under Godfather Leygues there were never delays in Darlan's promotions. At 48 he became the youngest rear admiral in 50 years of French naval history. Godfather Leygues gave him the Order of Commander of the Legion of Honor, and in 1933 left the Admiral most of the big Leygues fortune. When Darlan became Chief of Staff he recommended himself for the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since the fall of France Marshal Pétain has given...
Instead of bucking the chef, waitress, and pastry-cook unions at every turn, Harvard has co-operated with their representatives, winning Joe Stefani's applause as a "good" employer. The result is that the University labor picture is a peaceful one, while union members have gained more humane conditions...
Gidding, a self-described cum laude student of life in the raw, stated that his latest chef d'oeuvre is a story of New York life from the point of view of three modernized Fates...
Ernest Wolff,* 27-year-old Chicagoan, has been an opera buff ever since he was twelve, and made puppets to accompany his opera records. Once he got a job as waiter, then as chef, in a restaurant near the Met, so that he could spend his spare time there. Back in Chicago, he labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci...
...been more accidents and horseplay than there are at an American Legion convention. There are dozens of laughs for easy laughers. Sample: "An opportunity like that, and he didn't goose her!-he's in love." Sounder chuckles come when the producer (Reynolds Evans), a solemn amateur chef, rapturously breathes out his formula for the preparation of gumbo. Making her Broadway debut in the play is Designer Norman Bel Geddes' daughter Barbara, 18, who should continue to do well in parts requiring a plump, pleasant young person with a babyish voice. But father Geddes, who preferred Barbara...