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Emphasizing that student waiters are entitled to the same food that other undergraduates eat, Holt urged that any employee who arbitrarily withheld food from a waiter be reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Job Bureau Head Replies to Gripes Of Union Waiters | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

...Carroll, headliner of the production, played the part of the Waiter-a typical Shavian member of the lower classes, who knows his place in society and is anxious to guard its importance. Tom Holmore was superbly British as Valentine, superbly 'supermanish' as the male of intellect powerless in the tentacles of his corresponding female's life force. Pat Kirkland was nicely vivacious, if slightly more American than the rest of the cast, as the younger daughter, Dolly. Her youthful brother, Philip, was played with a nice combination of exhuberance and English stage presence by Nigel Stock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Never Can Tell | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...Moral? Next day, Loretta'Young divulged her sources: the executive's shoes story came from a U.S. woman correspondent (who, apparently, doesn't know that coupons aren't required for resoling shoes). The chocolate-bar-and-piteous-child incident was told her by a British waiter, whose little boy had shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Darkest England | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...professor examined her textbook, and decided that it was not. The Diocese of Cleveland agreed. The professor told Baldwin-Wallace's 163 Catholic students that they must resign from the college. "If my doctor tells me to eat beef," he explained, "and a waiter in a restaurant says he has only pork, I don't stay and fight with him. I just walk out." By week's end 65 Catholic students had packed their bags and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walkout | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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