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Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...
...Charlie is a genius. He is also a bombastic, terribly hardworking, frantic guy who just chews people .up. Unless you can bully him when he's wrong, you're through." McCarthy wonderingly describes an agency meeting with Client Revson: "It started in the afternoon. Around 7 a waiter from Longchamps came in to serve his dinner. Not a crumb of food was offered to anyone else at the table. The meeting went on through the night." A perfectionist, Revson can talk for hours over the exact shade of red he wants...
...want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave him every morning...
Undigestive Process. In Southampton, England. Waiter Kyriacos Miltiadou was fined $28 for knocking down and kicking a diner who failed...
...hard times. To pay for groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with a tray when Author Peale suggested the nonviolent tactic of "shooting prayers'' at them instead. Result: "smiles all around...