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...diner-out who elbows his way to a restaurant chair in Washington has learned to eat his food either 1) in optimistic haste, or 2) with queasy care. Reason: the insect world and slovenly workers are fighting a winning battle against laxly enforced sanitation laws and overworked health inspectors...
Cobb has the knack of keeping one eye on a temperamental diner, one on the ledger. As a showman, he is beyond surprise. To one eccentric but steady patron, Bob Cobb's waiters always served, without blinking, a dish of spongecake, smothered in catsup. Says President Cobb, reminiscently: "You can do nearly anything you want with the public...
...citizens, uniformed and in mufti, traveled 54 billion passenger miles last year-an alltime high-though U.S. railroads had only two-thirds of the cars, half the locomotives they had 20 years ago. Where 100 passengers used to be considered the peak for one diner, now a single crew of waiters may have to serve up to 700 meals a day, sometimes work from 5:30 a.m. until 2 a.m. next morning. Pullman porters, working over 250 hours a month, are similarly overloaded...
...object of their solicitude was Joe Diner, 62, steward of the Denver Press Club - one of the few surviving institutions of its kind in the U.S. and probably the only one with a club building of its own. Word had gone out that Joe had survived a serious operation, was about to undergo another, minor one. The "boys" made up a pot to pay his hospital fees...
...squadron when the carrier went down before Japanese torpedo fire in the Battle of the Solomons. The subject of his talk was not revealed by ROTC officers last night, but it was understood to be of an instructive nature. Before the meeting, Lieut, Campbell will be the guest at diner of Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, and Edward W. Garrison '43, president of the Naval Society...