Word: tippers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where he was known as a generous tipper and a big, if unlucky, chemin de fer player...
Parsimonious Tipper. Shuman's job entails traveling some 75,000 miles a year. In the first half of 1965, he has been in the Chicago office only 58 days, made a total of 61 speeches in 22 states. In Chicago, Shuman stays at the Sherman Hotel, where he gets a special rate and a different room each week. After 20 years, Shuman and the Sherman's bellboys have become special friends, though Shuman is a notoriously parsimonious tipper. "I don't throw it around," he says...
...fast, sloppy job, then present open, demanding palms, Mendelsohn's in New Rochelle, N.Y., offers a solution. It is a coin that looks like a quarter, feels like a quarter (at eight for $ 1, even costs less than a quarter), generally passes for the genuine article until the tipper is safely out of reach. Too late, open, demanding eyes will discover the drawing of an outstretched hand where George Washington should be, and instead of an eagle, the straightforward, gloriously embossed message: THIS COIN is YOUR TIP. GIVE NOTHING. GET NOTHING. ZERO CENTS. IT MATCHES EXACTLY THE VALUE...
...Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into a Colombian oilfield, he is also known in hotels and restaurants on four continents as a lavish spender and tipper...
...this spirit. Says U.C.L.A. Sociology Professor Edward C. McDonagh: "Tipping is 'out of season' in our society, but few of us have become aware of it. Why give a gratuity to someone who has Blue Cross coverage?" And in Boston a few years ago, an adman established "Tippers Anonymous," which sells members a $1 book of 30 yellow slips. On each is printed a message explaining that Tippers Anonymous is "dedicated to improving service and restoring its reward." The tipper checks off the grade of service (excellent, good, fair, poor) and leaves the slip for the waiter with...