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Pale, eight-year-old Prince Philip of Greece was under no illusions. Paris in 1929 was full of exiled princes. Some drove taxis. Others were waiters. At his fashionable school in St. Cloud, Philip was always ready to take on odd jobs like waiting on tables. His mother had warned him that he might as well learn, because he too might end up as a waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man's Man | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...National Committee was set up, Mom had big ideas. She wanted to build a war widows' home for which she had had an elaborate plan made (see cut). The home, Mom figured, would cost a mere $12 million. Who would run it? Mom knew just the man-a waiter-captain she had met. Said Mom: "He's gorgeous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Teardrops' Yield | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Transcript offering to work a year without pay for any family who would teach him the English language. He got twelve answers, picked one at random, a doctor's home in a small Vermont town, and within twelve months was spouting like a native. Then he became a hotel waiter and moved successively through Boston, New York, Denver, Los Angels, and San Francisco. In 1914, after two years spent back in Greece fighting in the First Balkan War he made up his mind that the time for youthful flings was over and that destiny was calling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 4/29/1947 | See Source »

...balance its suspense, this type of movie generally tries for incidental humor. Johnny O'Clock tries almost too hard. (In a checkered-tablecloth restaurant, the waiter serves Powell & girl two unordered straight shots. Powell: "Who ordered these?" Waiter: "Ever eaten here?" Powell:"No." Waiter:"You'll need 'em.") But the show's biggest laugh is unintentional. During a gambling session, Powell and his partner, by this time sworn enemies, step outside to split their profits and call it quits. After they have been gone a few tense minutes, the sound track shudders with a rattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Louis was having better luck. Police finally recovered his 1946 Cadillac, stolen in deepest Harlem last October, and charged a dining-car waiter with the crime. The waiter, they said, declared that he absolutely would not have stolen it if he had known it was Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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