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...Season," traces his rise from a humble Michigan childhood to the most powerful office in the world. "Gerald Ford is Middle America," Time declares, and "his roots reach deeply, tenaciously into the thrifty, hard-toiling community of Grand Rapids." We follow Ford's path from his days as a waiter during the depression, his career as a B student at the University of Michigan, his years as a law student and football coach at Yale, where he almost married a model ("Nothing quite so frivolous has since intruded on his well-regulated life," we are assured), through his election...
...applause for the Trinity Square Repertory Company's superb production of Israel Horowitz's Alfred the Great dies down and the audience begins to file out of the theater while the house lights come up, one feels slightly cheated--as if after savoring a fine appetizer the waiter has come to say that the main course will be indefinitely delayed. The appetite has been whetted and the palate prepared for a meal that never comes...
...Knox. Americans, who are increasingly knowledgeable about wine, are among Terrail's favorite guests. La Tour rests above 150,000 bottles of wine, worth at his estimate at least $3 million. ("It's my Fort Knox," he says.) When a guest asks for a Coca-Cola, the waiter invariably replies, "What is that? How do you spell it?" There is one innovation that particularly pleases the well-to-do party giver: Terrail's notion of presenting only the host with a menu that lists prices. (A dinner for two, with a modest wine, will cost an average...
Died. Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston, 67, reporter for more than 40 years and one of the first black newsmen to cover general stories for a major New York daily; after a long illness; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ted Poston worked as a dining-car waiter and freelance writer in Europe before joining the staff of the New York Amsterdam News and then the New York Post, where his byline appeared for 33 years. His first big stories were exclusive interviews with Governor Huey Long of Louisiana and Wendell Willkie; other assignments included Thomas E. Dewey's raids...
Chris Bernbrock, 21, a senior at Santa Clara University, was turned down as a waiter at more than 50 New York restaurants before landing a job as a hotel night guard. He had hoped to make as much as $1,500 this summer for tuition and books, but now expects to save only about...