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...harangued a porter. I drove through Miami Beach to indulge myself in a deluge of costumes and Cadillacs. Later, in Palm Beach, Harold's grocery truck (of Southampton, L.I., and Palm Beach) sped by advertising pheasant and fresh caviar. At Hamburger Haven I was handed hamburgers by a waiter in a cashmere sweater and Gucci shoes (no socks). In front of the Beach Club a wedding party sang college songs and split Jack Daniel's on the tenth tier of the wedding cake...

Author: By Christopher Cabot, | Title: Intersession Back from the Bahamas | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...have grossed more than $1,000,000, and have started a chain by opening an English pub across town and a Victoria Station in Atlanta. Bradley's company has understandably become a lodestone for out-of-work brokers from around San Francisco. One of them has become a waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOBS: Busted Brokers Bounce Back | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...reporter and then bringing the house down by apologizing to the Japanese correspondents that he couldn't do the same for them. Although not the ranking NASA official present, he stole the show. Aquarius respected him for it, even though he described him as looking like "the head waiter of the largest hofbrau house in Heaven." Aquarius was famous for that kind of putdown, although he himself offered the observer a variety of choices. In his steel-rim glasses and vested pinstripe suit, he was not unlike a Mafia accountant. Casually attired at his Brooklyn Heights brownstone amid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections on a Star-Crossed Aquarius | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...roughness-but by default, since, "I couldn't afford to make them in metal." A struggling young artist if there ever was one, he is still at the stage where his bed is a mattress on the floor, and he works, often two shifts a day, as a waiter. Influenced at first by minimal art ("I am extremely derivative. I worshiped Robert Morris, but I got over that") Shostak has gravitated toward a kind of abstracted nature-imagery. Minimal art he now finds understated and unimportant. "I think of my work as more flamboyant, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Junkyard | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

Pattakos says that the Greeks are free to express their ideas. Another story from Greece: In the Byzantine Cafe in Athens, a customer ordered lobster, which is astakos in Greek. The waiter changed the wording slightly and ordered "Pattakos." He was jailed for three days...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: Interview with a Colonel The Number Two Man Behind the Greek Coup | 12/11/1970 | See Source »

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