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...book-loving Baptist preacher, Johnson had been a brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...
Molotov's fellow delegates could hardly get used to his frequent smiles and handshakes, suspected that at times he even hovered on the brink of a backslap. Cracked he: "This is my first vacation since the Revolution." Oscar Englund, a waiter at the Waldorf, found Molotov gracious enough to give an autograph-though Englund later lost his job for his audacity. "So what?" said he. "That's history, what...
...clock, when the party was supposed to end, attendants had to circulate around murmuring "please, please," to guests reluctant to call it a day. "Please what?" asked one uncertain lady; "you mean please go away?" "Please!" said the waiter...
...last week 1,870 of the 5,000 had successfully run the gauntlet, and 550 were already in training. Half of these clerical shock troops have had no more than a primary education. One was a coal miner, another a waiter, a third a warehouse clerk. By 1949 the Church of England hopes to have made 2,000 of them into clergymen, at a cost...
...wonder is freedom still holding the light- Or is she just calling the waiter...