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...efforts to rekindle brotherly love first produce boredom, then brotherly loathing. Kelly has degenerated into a Broadway fast-buck man who manages a double-dealing prizefighter; Dailey has overblown himself into a slobbish, ulcer-ridden TV idea man; Kidd, the papa of five of them, runs a crummy Schenectady diner specializing in "Cordon Blue" hamburgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Gourmet. In Hardwick, Vt., where he was arrested and fined $18.50 for assault, Lorenzo Brochu, 42, admitted he entered a local diner, spotted Joseph Bellavance, plucked him out of his chair, flung him into the street while roaring: "I wouldn't eat in the same place with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

When The Man Who Came to Dinner opened on Broadway in 1939, it was an immediate hit, ran for 739 performances. Last week L'Homme Qui Etait Venn Pour Diner closed in Paris after 16 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: French Without Tears | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: One Meatball . . . | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

Even after Bill was identified, however, John Flicker, the owner of the plundered diner, could not stop laughing long enough to get angry. "My sides ache," he said weakly, after all reports were in. "How I wish I coulda seen it. Wotta sense of yooma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Great Ham & Egg Holdup | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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