Word: counterman
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...math teacher, went one evening into a downtown cafe and sat down at the counter. The counterman told Joe he would have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back...
...tried a variant of this in a roadside diner. Approaching a counterman, he said: "My name is Estes Kefauver, and I'm running for President...
...President of what?" asked the counterman...
...opponents hope that Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson has been hurt politically by the disclosure of corruption in his administration; the Chicago Tribune promptly coined a new word, "Adlai-burger." And the sizzling scandal inevitably has produced almost as much corn as horse meat. Sample: the story about the counterman who asked a hamburger customer: "How will you have it-to win, place or show...
...shape to protest. But it was also difficult to prove. When the cops discovered that Howard's girl friend, a Mrs. Mary Morgan, was in a hospital, they hopefully put a watch outside her room. Her brother-a 23-year-old, $8-a-week hamburger-stand counterman named Rudolph Sheeler-went to Philadelphia from New York City on his day off to visit her. They grabbed him there...