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Mark N. Contratto, a 24-year-old waiter at a North End Restaurant who has worked on the Kerry campaign for about a month, said he had voted for Reagan...
...evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...
Most restaurants have a policy of asking patrons if they wish to be seated in the non-smoking section. Martin E. Daley, a waiter at Autre Chose on Mt. Auburn Street, said that "everybody says 'yes' right away," but the added that "once they request it and you say its really full, they usually don't care," and sit in the smoking section without complaint...
McCormack's book emphasizes that businessmen must be able to "read" people, to find out if they are secure or uptight, honest or treacherous. McCormack says that a person reveals a lot in the way he treats a waiter at a business lunch, decorates his office or even plays a round of golf. Look out for someone who thinks that any putt of 6 ft. or less is a "gimme...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...