Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy's idea of a meal is steak, very well done. "Cremate it," he tells the waiter. He almost always has steak for dinner, often for breakfast. He rarely eats lunch, but when he does, he is likely to order steak. He keeps irregular hours, gets up late, goes to bed usually long after midnight. A favorite McCarthy recreation is poker, but many find playing with him too nerve-racking, and somewhat like opposing him in politics. In seven-card stud, McCarthy will raise, raise again and then again without even bothering to look at his hole cards. Said...
...nearest chair, poured the champagne into her black suede shoe (size four) and drank a toast. Shouted Tallulah: "Winston Churchill is my god, and I'm just mad about England. I mean Britain. I just love you all like crazy." Then she hopped down, tapped the nearest waiter, kissed him four times and said, "Darling, bring me a drink." As other waiters scurried to be of service, she cautioned the cameramen: "Don't shoot me grinning. I look like the Cheshire cat." As she answered reporters' questions she pleaded: "Don't say I'm gracious...
...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...
...Blush in Manhattan. For all this work, Mel Allen gets a flower a day from an anonymous woman, 1,000 letters a week, $100,000 a year and the satisfaction of having one of radio's most familiar voices ("How about that!"). But when a Manhattan waiter told him last week that he recognized his voice the minute he heard it, Allen blushed-a reminder that big city fame & fortune have not entirely changed the Melvin Allen Israel who was born the son of a general store proprietor in Johns...
...give them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band struck up The Eyes of Texas, and the head waiter strode up to give them a hearty, if overly triumphant welcome...