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...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...
Public Service. In Southsea, England a notice was posted on the wall of the Tudor Rose Cafe, where bosomy Marian Weeks was employed: "Patrons are kindly requested not to waste the waitress's time by asking for her vital statistics . They are 41½, 26, 37. 'S true...
Model's Secret. Born the illegitimate daughter of a hard-working peasant woman, Suzanne Valadon was raised in the Paris streets like countless gamins, working as a seamstress, waitress, vegetable seller, and drawing for pleasure on the sidewalks with pieces of coal. Tradition has it that she first caught the eye of Painter Puvis de Chavannes when she delivered his laundry. Struck by her slim figure and natural grace, he made her the model for all the figures (both male and female) in his most celebrated painting, The Sacred Wood. Other assignments soon followed. Auguste Renoir used...
...score-for the rain-then-shine California romance of an aging Italian winegrower and the young waitress he has courted by mail-is at its best where it is lightest or most lightly lyrical. There is a male quartet cocking a very male eye in Standing on the Corner; there is the sheer Broadway frolicking of Big D, with its salute to Dallas; the gay lesson-in-English of Happy to Make Your Acquaintance; the Verdi-gurdy high spirits of Abbondanza and Sposalizio. But there is also the lyrical How Beautiful the Days, with its touch of Bellini-like sweetness...
...Place, the new order took the form of a mimeographed warning taped to the wall at each booth. It reads: "In order to facilitate serving please have your identification cards ready for the waitress to see. If you are under 21 do not attempt to order alcoholic drinks, as you will not be served...