Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching (French) at Buffalo's exclusive Nichols School for boys. He kept on job-jumping (political reporter at the now defunct Buffalo Times, secretary to Buffalo's mayor, district manager of Buffalo's OPA office) before joining Bell as Larry Bell's assistant. An amateur chef, he cooked the meals for Bell executives when they stayed in the plant for days at a stretch rather than face angry pickets during a 1949 strike...
...Invited some 40 reporters and photographers to a beef-stew feed at the Cherry Hills Club, and personally supervised the work of Club Chef Jack Pierce...
...findings: that scantily clad models are poor saleswomen (they distract viewers from products they demonstrate); that a "baby sitter" who plugs a TV set as the best of any that she has seen in the homes where she has worked, is more effective than an "engineer"; that a professional chef who tells how easy a prepared cake mix is to use does not get anywhere near the audience response of a child who stirs up the cake mix right before the viewers...
...chickens and pork chops slowly turning on spits over a fire were being done to a nice, hickory-scented brown. "Brother, I'm just crazy about barbecues. I love 'em," beamed Ike. Manager R. C. Wilson of the D. & W. Manufacturing Co. immediately offered to send Amateur Chef Eisenhower a "Barbecue King" model (capacity of its four electrically powered racks: 20 chickens, 40 to 50 Ibs. of spareribs, eight 14-lb. hams. Cost: $400). The President hesitated momentarily, then said: "I'm afraid that is one gift I couldn't refuse." The President, a keen student...
...roona bits and pieces of When You Wore a Tulip or The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise were audible.* On the street outside the hotel, quartets with such names as the Agriculturalists (who dress in overalls, bandannas, straw hats) from Wisconsin, or the Clef Chefs (chef's aprons and hats) from Indiana, gathered at a street lamp decorated with peppermint-stick paper and gave out with Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie or Let the Rest of the World...