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...some time that he was tired of administrative work. Five years ago he had brought in ex-Newspaper Editor Richard C. Wald as a News vice president. Last June, when Frank made Wald his second in command, it seemed clear that Wald was being groomed to succeed his patron. With that change accomplished, Frank now plans to return to producing news documentaries...
Williams attacks his subject from the flank, through the invented journals and letters of Augustus' family, friends and enemies. He breathes life into Old Friend Maecenas, generous patron of the poet Horace but a terrible versifier himself, and the fluttery Ovid, burlesqued by Williams in a splendidly overblown poem. The most vivid character is Augustus' daughter Julia, a Becky Sharp of the Roman salon...
...instance, a current that threatens to sweep him away as he swims) and a strange longing to surrender to the danger and let himself die. When there seems to be no further chance of survival, his fear disappears and he welcomes death. That strange emotion was experienced by Literary Patron Caresse Crosby. Recalling her rescue from drowning as a child, she wrote: "I saw the efforts to bring me back to life and I tried not to come back. I was only seven, a carefree child, yet that moment in all my life has never been equaled for pure happiness...
Getting all that food to the patron's table is another story. The restaurant has been understaffed, and a large number of the originally hired waiters have already quit. Bureaucratic measures aimed at increasing morale have backfired. One waiter related that after being told he was a member of the big, happy Mama Leone family, he was warned that his eating at other than designated times would result in his dismissal...
...just got to that fifth round, and I couldn't stop. I got to singing the Notro Dame fight song and right in the middle of maitre Jacques I got up and started that famous Notre Dame marching step on top of the tables. I marched from patron to patron, took a right onto the sit-down bar, leaped over to the bandstand and did a rendition of "Yes Sir, That's say (Hoosier) Baby. Everybody really dug it." The performance, which won him an invitation to Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour and an honorary membership to the Adams...