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...informal bull sessions at the church decided to form a "prayer-cell." One discipline to which they bound themselves was to ask a stranger each day, "Do you believe in prayer?" One night when Pastor Burkhart was eating alone in a restaurant, he fell into conversation with the waitress and suddenly sprang his day's query on prayer. "Well, big boy," she said, visibly shaken, "I must say that's the most unusual approach I've ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beloved Fellowship | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge, is a group of German war brides who will take off in two hours for America. Among them is a mother with a baby in her arms. She sits and dreams with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Road Back? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Jackson, Miss., a 30-year-old waitress named Diana Guance spent days considering a fascinating question-what would happen if she hit her boss spang in the face with a chocolate meringue pie? At last she let fly, got fired, was charged with assault. Said she: "It was soul-satisfying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Patterson might drop in on his airline terminal restaurant at Denver, Colo, some morning for breakfast. He will find: 1) door usually locked, 2) one disgruntled, rude waitress on duty, 3) food greasy, unpalatable . . . 4) sanitation at ceiling zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...avoid offense to Pansy's prototype (the big-city Yiddish tenement dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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