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Next day Rajah and another exchange student, a German, went sightseeing, then stopped at another drugstore. After they had sat at a table a few minutes, a waitress came up and said: "We don't serve colored people here." Despite Rajah's explanation that he was a foreigner and a guest of the U.S. Government, he and his companion were refused service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Not to Make Friends | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...would be a fine bridge between the moderate, old-line Socialists and the left-wingers. An old-style trade unionist himself, he came from the revivalist meetings and coal dust of South Wales, eked out an education in London's Labor College while his wife worked as a waitress, rose slowly but surely through the chairs of the mine workers' union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mutiny | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...could be seen walking in brilliant sunshine with a raised umbrella over his head; his wife had put it up for him during the last rain, and he had since seen no reason to put it down. A waitress who brought him two poached eggs saw them fly into his lap when he struck the table to drive home a point; they remained there, unnoticed and unfelt, even when he paused in his argument to cry: "Waitress, will you please bring me two more poached eggs? I seem to have lost the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postscript on G. K. | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...uniformed waitress appeared, flashing a $2 minimum card, and called for our orders. Two beers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straight-Jacquet | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

School of Experience. In Denver, Waitress Evelyn Marshall, yielding to "a sudden impulse," dived out her fifth-floor window, buckled a tin ventilator shaft on the second floor, bounced off a car top into a parking lot, suffered only a broken tooth and a stomach ache. Soberly she told physicians: "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never jump through the window again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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