Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chen is a charming expatriate of Shanghai. She left her native city with her husband nine years ago to escape the Communist regime. Mrs. Chen explains that she decided last June to open a restaurant, "Because I like to cook and to give our northern Chinese friends a place to eat." And the restaurant does attract many Chinese, as well as a good proportion of the faculty and students engaged in Oriental studies at the University. Mrs. Chen should corner the market of Mandarin food-lovers in the whole Metropolitan Boston area. Indeed, all of Massachusetts...
Onionhead (Warner) is Andy Griffith, who buckled the nation at the midriff as the corn-pone Army private in No Time for Sergeants. This time Hollywood has cast Able Comedian Griffith as a cook's assistant in the Coast Guard, and served him up on a script about as funny as an eyeful of bilge water...
Hero Griffith earns his nickname when he shaves his skull egg-bald in hopes of growing thicker hair. When not engaged in scalping himself, he bangs pans by day and bumblefoots around the local talent (Felicia Farr) by night, but hits stormy weather on both fronts. His chief cook (Walter Matthau), a sardonic old coot with a mania for cinnamon rolls, marries the girl. Then Cookie ships out for convoy duty, and Griffith finds himself heating up both the gal and the gallery...
...Victor's Open Kitchen on the western edge of Batavia, N.Y., the breakfast order of poached eggs, toast and coffee was routine. But the customer obviously was not. While his eggs poached, he table-hopped to shake hands. He ducked behind the counter to greet the cook, the counterman, the waitresses and the busboy. For each, he flashed a broad smile, his forehead crinkled into wrinkles. "Hello, I'm Nelson Rockefeller," he said. "I'm running for Governor. It's a real pleasure to say hello to you." When the eggs were served, the candidate invited...
Died. Phil Cook, 65, jaunty, guitar-strumming comedian of early radio, best known as the "Quaker Oats Man" who could play as many as 13 different parts on one show in a baffling variety of voices; after long illness; in Morristown...