Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Salesmen and executives who have traveled the expense account road to the good life were tripped up last week. A U.S. tax-court decision held that a businessman may deduct the price of his own meal, while entertaining, only to the extent that it is higher than what he usually pays. Said the court: "When a taxpayer in the course of supplying food or entertainment . . . includes an amount attributable to himself or his family . . . the costs . . . are ordinarily and by their very nature personal expenditures forbidden deduction . . . Nondeductibility of personal expenses may be overcome only by clear and detailed evidence...
...still wears ("It's getting a little tight under the arms"). He drops names as easily as he gulps an outsize portion of pâte de foie gras. "We had lunch recently with the . . . Aga Khan," writes Buchwald. "His Highness told us he eats only one meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple pun, described the event: "The well-bread Ritz Hotel...
...Steve Allen Show is often relaxed to the point of torpor. Steve sits at a table, fidgeting with his mail, complaining about the public-address system, or asking unimportant questions of his off-camera crew. Sometimes he has his barber in to give him a haircut or has a meal served to him from a nearby restaurant. There is usually an interview, often punctuated by long, thoughtful silences and frequently marked by a rather insane literacy. (Sample: after listening to a seemingly endless sales message, Allen observed, "The foregoing commercial is now available on long-playing records.") Allen...
...July 9 Penelope retired to her burrow and did not appear again for six days. She ate an enormous meal and popped back again. The curators hovered around, smiling at one another like fond godfathers. All the signs pointed to platypus eggs, perhaps even hairless platypus infants wriggling in the nest...
...their own kind, however, the theater owners got a brighter image. Said Leonard H. Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc.: TV and the movies are so different that they are not truly competitive. "One is the 'athome snack' while the other is a seven-course meal at a sumptuous restaurant. And television will no more put motion pictures out of business than home cooking-good as it may be-has put restaurants out of business...