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...leaped inside and sprayed it with Tommy guns. A soldier saved Ephraim's five-year-old daughter by throwing himself across her body, but he was riddled. Then the Arabs grabbed revolvers and fired into anything that twitched. "I played dead," said Miriam Lesser, a waitress. "One of the Arabs dragged me up by my hair to see if I was alive, then shot at my head but missed." A moment later, the assassins were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Massacre at Scorpion's Pass | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...prose, beautiful and simple though it is, appear the unmistakable marks of a first novel. The similes are sometimes strained; the spring ground smells like "the healthy, passionate sweat of a country waitress." Occasionally his attempt for poetry-in-prose sounds sing song, "John eat your mush . . . Eat your breakfast and hush...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Night of the Hunter | 2/26/1954 | See Source »

...dinky shops and shaggy park. In the tavern cyclists gleefully guzzle beer while Brando strides about with an alley cat swagger, convincing the town and audience he harbors a grudge against the world in general. Center of his interest is Mary Murphy, playing a tousled, mixed-up waitress, who asks "Isn't it all crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well as a man who can see a problem yet is unable to do anything about it. Local...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: The Wild One | 1/29/1954 | See Source »

...dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

...Waitress' Day. In Kenosha, Wis., when Milton Hall, 23, entered her lunchroom and threatened her with a pistol, Waitress Margaret Gresham talked him into pocketing the weapon, treated him to a cup of coffee, then called the police, who promptly came and arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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