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...professor took a long, self-righteous swallow of wine as the students counted their pfennigs to see if they could afford another. The obese waitress--spellbound by Glaubich's erudition--beamed at him as she had at the young Wehrmacht and SS officers who were her wartime clientele. Glaubich shyly smiled back, lit another Gold Dollar cigarette, and bent over the table toward his disciples...

Author: By Ernest A. Ostro, | Title: Doublethink Rethought | 11/18/1955 | See Source »

...Japan, the sovereign remedy for despair is suicide. Last week a young Japanese lover named Satoru Takayanagi, ill with tuberculosis, journeyed with his true love, Waitress Setsumi Endo, 59 miles south of Tokyo to the island of O Shima, site of famed "Suicide Point." As they climbed to the edge of the volcanic crater of Mount Mihara, they were met by a suspicious detective, who asked what was on their minds. "If you want to pry into our private lives," answered young Takayanagi, "get a warrant." When the detective had gone, the young lovers joined hands and leaped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Young Love | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...blinded by the fumes, they let themselves down some 600 feet to an outcropping of rock on the very edge of the crater. The rock had broken the young couple's fall. There, covered with blood and bruises, her ankle smashed, but still unromantically alive, lay the little waitress Setsumi. Beside her, uninjured, was her impulsive lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Young Love | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Loretta Stone, a waitress in Arthur Parker's, who originally charged Forrester with threatening has with his six-inch knife, did not appear in court yesterday. Her charges were not entered as evidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Pays Fine In Knife Incident | 11/10/1954 | See Source »

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