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...visited military and naval bases, most of them in the South. There are, he learned, virtually no race incidents at posts. Swimming pools, athletics, post exchanges, movies-and work-are shared (although Negroes are generally "discouraged" from attending white dances). At Camp Lejeune, N.C., Nichols saw a white Marine waiter approach a billiards-playing Negro sergeant and ask, in a respectful Southern drawl: "May I get you something, sir?" A Negro chaplain offhandedly told Nichols: "I'm just another chaplain; fellows come to see me regardless of race." A Negro Air Force psychiatrist said he had successfully treated several...
Shoes, Ships &; Stamps. Actually, the career of Economist Burns passed through a good many more phases than that. Burns was born 49 years ago in Austrian Poland. He was nine when he and his father came to the U.S. Arthur worked as a postal clerk, waiter, theater usher, dishwasher, oil-tanker mess boy, and salesman of shoes, furniture and real estate. By his third year as a student at Columbia, Burns had decided that he wanted to be an economist. After graduation he started teaching economics and doing research work while writing his doctor's thesis. Its subject: "Production...
...dish is seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...
...Restaurateur Mike Romanoff shrugged off rumors that his gold-plated hash house was folding up, by informing Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart that he was declaring a 5% stockholder's dividend for 1953. Stockholder Bogart smiled as Romanoff announced Bogie's share-$50-then soured as Romanoff's waiter brought the lunch check...