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...served out of love. Through approximately half of Across the River and into the Trees, the aging colonel and his young mistress' are meticulously cared for by assorted Venetian factotums, all of whom are really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche...
...Gaulle has managed to reduce the potency of French extremists. Even as the two men conferred, a few hundred demonstrators, led by Jacques Soustelle, marched down the Champs Elysees crying "Algerie Française!" and "Bourguiba assassin!" Most Parisians watched with indifference and went their way. One cafe waiter, a veteran connoisseur of Parisian riots, said contemptuously, "This is the merest caricature of a demonstration...
...Waiter, waiter, waiter...
...affection of West Pointers ranging from John J. Pershing to Dwight Eisenhower, an unprecedented full-dress review of the Corps of Cadets upon his retirement in 1946, and a shiny screen biography (The Long Gray Line) in 1955; of a stroke; at West Point Army Hospital. As a mess waiter, nonswimming swimming coach and gym custodian, Maher was outranked but never outclassed by protégés who worked their way from bars to stars, but got their first fitness report from the mischievous "Marty." Among Marty's ratings: Pershing-"a holy terror, yet born to command"; MacArthur...
High above the chaos sat NBC Stars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, seemingly lashed to a specially designed table that looked like two large boomerangs joined together. A dumb-waiter lifted hot food and hot poop up to them from below. Said Huntley: "We're on the quarterdeck of the mother ship...