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...carefully done character vignettes. Except for a lapse into poor taste in excessive use of a palsied hand, Franklin Cover's feeble old Silence complements splendidly John Heffernan's Shallow, garrulous and in his dotage. Heffernan, in the first part, brings his talent to the role of Francis, the waiter. Caught between two masters calling for him, he looked for all the world like the proverbial ass, stranded midway between two bales...
...certified public accountant who joined the American Express Co. in 1945, was named to succeed retiring President Ralph T. Reed, 69. Reed will continue as a director and chairman of the executive committee. Clark, who was born in South Pasadena, Calif., worked his way through Stanford University as a waiter and gas station attendant, used an aunt's $100 graduation present to go to New York because it was "the place to get ahead." He got a job with Price, Waterhouse, accountants, took night-school courses until he passed his C.P.A. exams. Then he decided to be a lawyer...
Candlestick is built for the customer-particularly if he happens to have a fat billfold. In the section known as "the Golden Horseshoe," and selling at $500 per place for the 76-day home season, each box is equipped with private lockers, tables, telephones, and, on call, waiters (last week the waiter service was not quite ready). For San Francisco's often chilly weather, there is radiant heating under the seats...
...four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter at the Savoy Hotel...
...Goddamn it," said she, nervously twisting her next-to-last engagement ring (Mike Todd, 29.5 carats), finally persuaded the party to move by offering to pay their check (circa $500). "Listen, lady," the squatters told her (or so she reported later), "we knew Eddie when he was a waiter at Grossinger's, and our money is as good as yours...