Word: greeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bradbury, 38, is science fiction's suavest purple-people greeter. In this collection of short stories, his literary reception line includes Martians, Venusniks, mermaids and sundry oddball Earthlings. What the tales have in common is the spectral dread of a Charles Addams cartoon, a twist of O. Henry, and an occasionally vivid poetic image that some readers regard as Bradburied treasure...
During his 50-year regency over the cuisine of New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Oscar Tschirky-Oscar of the Waldorf to thousands of epic epicures -rose to such gastronomic eminence that his memory endures in menus, viands and appetites the world over. A greeter, Oscar in his white chef's cap stood figuratively astride the gourmet banquet table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef...
...what Philippe of the Waldorf lacked as a greeter and as a symbol of the leisurely, intimate dinner, he more than compensated for in his mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted...
...Doer. Some of the criticism that is aimed directly at Craig has come from the fact that he is still not a polished politician. Although he is an effusive greeter, a vigorous handshaker and an. expert at the Indiana political massage,* he has a tendency toward bluntness. He neglects many of the politician's chores, e.g., he passes up fairs and conventions at which an appearance by the governor is expected. At times his failure to observe the political amenities angers even his important allies...
...pairs of shoes. Then, with daughter Leonora, 12, and son Jacobito, 7, his wife and 16 cronies, he took off into the night sky. It was still dark when he landed in Mexico City, the most important refugee to reach there since Leon Trotsky in 1937. His only greeter, aside from reporters and plainclothesmen, was Mexico's leftist Senator Luis Rodriguez, onetime Ambassador to Guatemala...