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Russian in Parma. At that low point, the board of education offered the job of superintendent to Paul Briggs. Son of a small-town baker, he had worked his way through Western Michigan University as a part-time pastry chef, taught in high schools for nine years before being named principal and then superintendent of the Bay City, Mich., schools. In 1957, Briggs was named superintendent of schools in Parma, Ohio, where he introduced one of the country's first closed-circuit educational TV networks and created a Russian language program that, he was able to boast, had more...
...Philadelphia, he took along a cadre of N. & W. executives who are still known around headquarters as the "Virginia Mafia." Before long the Mafiosi had eased 550 oldtimers into retirement. Almost nothing about the Pennsy remained untouched. Saunders, who collects cookbooks as a hobby, even hired a new chef for the executive dining room, ordered him not to serve diet lunches...
...Secret of Perfection. So far has Stanish's fame as an omeleteer spread that what started as a moonlighting job, after his regular duties as head chef at Manhattan's Goldman, Sachs Wall Street brokerage house, now sends him jetting on weekends to serve hunt breakfasts in Virginia and midnight suppers in Houston (his charge: $125 per party, plus expenses). Over Christmas and New Year's, in addition to making omelets for five parties in three days in Manhattan, Stanish flew to Nashville, where Mrs. William Tyne says: "There's no question about it; he made...
...have fractured French while extolling the beauties of France, any entente that is less than cordiale with the land of par-lez-vous is as unthinkable as Paris with out spring or onion soup minus the crouton. But now la soupe is spoiled-and most Americans are blaming one chef d'etat too many. Grated raw by the rough edge of the French President's tongue, they are kindled with an ardent wish to divide Charles de Gaulle into three parts...
Died. Ferdinand Louvat, 53, French pastry chef at the White House, hired by the Kennedys in 1962, who whipped up countless delectables for dignitaries and topped off his career with the Texas-sized (13 tiers, 8 ft. tall, 300 Ibs.) wedding cake he baked for Luci Johnson last year; of a heart attack; in Bethesda...