Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noblesse oblige: over the years, Prince Antony Radziwill stuck to his obligations, first as a waiter at the Blue Cockatoo in Chelsea and then as wine steward at the Hertford Hotel in London's Bayswater. Finally the noblesse paid off. To celebrate his promotion to "joint head barman" at the hotel, "Mr. Tony," whose cousin, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, is the husband of Jackie Kennedy's sister, Lee, stirred up a dry martini. Said he: "I pride myself on knowing how to make them...
...Waiter, peddler, porter, steward. Teacher, preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around...
...projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia's first Negro state legislator since Reconstruction. Episcopalian John M. Burgess, son of a dining-car waiter, is Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts; Dr. Middleton H. Lambright Jr., grandson of a slave, is president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. Leslie N. Shaw is the first Negro postmaster of Los Angeles. Historian John Hope Franklin is a professor at the University of Chicago...
...then the cowpoke got to a big city. San Francisco was his favorite. In the funniest passage in the book, McCauley describes how a country boy behaved in one of the elegant restaurants there. "I saw I had overjumped my pile but I looked wise, told the waiter to bring me a steak about the size of a mule's lip from the ear down and to put in a few more things that would fill up, like fried eggs. I did the best I could to get on the outside of all of it. Asked what I owed...
...shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual photographer-pal compete in a game of one-upmanship involving a dark-eyed waiter...