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Tony, a balding Mario Lanza who didn't speak much English, had come over from the old country and made a killing on the California wine market. When the pressure of business subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: The Most Happy Fella | 3/22/1956 | See Source »

Combined Operations. In Phoenix, Ariz., after he held up the House of Jazz and stuffed $270 in his pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Victim. In Clinton, Tenn., returning from the kitchen, Waitress Pearl Hogue spotted a would-be thief as he stuck his hand in the cash register, flung a cup of coffee in his face, sent him scurrying out the door as she bounced the pot off his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...Wilk got her picture identified, discovered her modus operandi, and put a stakeout on her neighborhood. Maggie, meanwhile, decided to lie low, after a $500 score in an A. & P. market last August. She went to Miami for a while, then to Las Vegas, finally settled down as a waitress in Galveston's redlight district. She got a little nervous there, mostly because she had to serve a lot of big Texas cops. Once she even went out on a date with a cop: "I wasn't much of a date; I didn't have anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Female of the Species | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Blondes never appreciated him. "Okay, I'm wrong," and he returned meekly to his cold ham. The meal proceeded uneventfully until the waitress (a student) asked if he wanted pudding or an apple for desert. "What kind of pudding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner at Radcliffe | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

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