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...artist's passion for selecting and serving food & drink. At 16, he got a job as busboy the day he arrived in Manhattan from Switzerland, quickly rose to waiter, then maitre d'hotel at Delmonico's, the old Waldorf, the new Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired in 1943, he managed to keep dinner at the Waldorf a fastidious, expensive ritual despite Prohibition, the rise of the sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1950 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

Howard Johnson propa hasn't started to lose any over it, but the University well on, its way toward establishment of a chain soda-and-sandwich fountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness Grille Serves Grads' Evening Hunges | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

Following the lead of Eliot House Grille, a late grille has been built into second floor of the new Harkness Commons building for benefit of center-dwellers don't care to hike to Square. As an added ment, the grille serves varieties of sandwich, including the biggest hamburger town, for 30 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harkness Grille Serves Grads' Evening Hunges | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

...base Curt LeMay strode by a master sergeant who had laid aside his piece to dive into his lunch bag. The C.G. rounded up all the maintenance men for one of his longer speeches. "This afternoon," said he, "I found one man guarding a hangar with a ham sandwich. There will be no more of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...East River shore was almost completed last week and w.ork was beginning on the 59-nation General Assembly hall that will snuggle at its base. Conservative critics had been hard on the tall Secretariat, had compared its marble and glass severity to that of a shoebox or a sandwich set on edge (TIME, June 13). They were going to be equally rocked by the swaybacked Assembly hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Tent | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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