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...gossip of which he is so fond), he seldom uses nights for going to bed. This is only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel who preferred writing his lays in the hours when solitude was easier to find...
...Graduate of the week: Oscar L. Thompson, 45, a former longshoreman, hospital orderly, drug clerk, waiter and pantryman, who last week got his M.A. in zoology-the first Negro ever to get a degree from the University of Texas...
...Manhattan's elegant St. Regis Hotel last week, a waiter carried two tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...
...waiter didn't know it, but he was indulging in an understatement. In her late 40s, Brooklyn-born Tillie Lewis likes to say she is the world's tomato queen and one of the nation's largest independent canners of fruits & vegetables. She began her Manhattan holiday last week as the 1951 packing season ended. At its close, her Flotill Products, Inc. had turned out 150 million cans, including some 75 million cans of tomatoes and tomato products. This year, she estimates she will net some $1,300,000 after taxes, on $20 million in sales...
Died. Julius Lulley, 58, Washington restaurateur, raconteur, wit, who rose from apprentice waiter to owner of Harvey's, one of the capital's oldest and best restaurants; of cancer; in Washington...