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...southern Indian town of Tiruchi last week, a 20-year-old hotel waiter scribbled hasty notes to family and friends, then committed suicide by gulping a bottle of insecticide. He was the third suicide in the area in a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hindi Imposition | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...exercise had become a game that might be called "Guess the Source." There is a butler in it, for example, named Butler. Ah, so. When Marilyn Monroe was a starlet, she had a bit part in All About Eve. At a party in the film she called out, "Oh, waiter!", and George Sanders, at her elbow, said to her, "That isn't a waiter, my dear. That's a butler." "Well," said Marilyn, "I can't yell 'Oh, butler,' can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: A Tale Within a Tail | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: In the Bag | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Defective Plumbing. Harrowed by fear that he will not get into college, Joseph is plucked from Brooklyn's comforting concrete and deposited in a summer camp to work as a waiter. Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Megomania | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...pretty nice job somewhere, but the shoeshine boy saved his money and invested in some real estate. The college boy told him it wasn't a good investment. In the end, the shoeshine boy was worth a billion dollars, and the college guy was a waiter in some restaurant. It was one of the best stories I've ever read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: The Shoeshine Shoeshine Boy | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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