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Robert Cunningham, a Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., police detective, had been a regular at Sal's Pizzeria in nearby Yonkers for eight years when, one night in March, he decided to offer Waitress Phyllis Penzo an unusual tip. "Hey, Phyl, I've got a lottery ticket in my pocket," he said. "Why don't we split the card?" Penzo took her chances, helped choose the numbers and ended up with a very nice tip in deed: $3 million. The newly made millionaires have modest plans for their winnings. While they both have dreams they want to fulfill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Lightning Strikes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., has the best characters in the world," bubbles Goldie Hawn, 38, who was filming Protocol in the capital, where she also grew up. Goldie plays a cocktail waitress who through a hilarious (it says here) series of events becomes a State Department protocol officer. Not amused, however, was the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Some extras who answered a casting call for "Arab-looking" types started a protest after seeing the script, which satirizes the kaffiyeh-clad emissaries of a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom. Worry about adverse publicity led Executive Producer Hawn and the film's other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...normal, active child. "Just an awful sweet little old girl," according to Joe Lunsford, her neighbor in Cumby, Texas (pop. 647). There was just one indication that something might be wrong: mysterious wartlike bumps covered her elbows, knuckles, knees and toes. Though her mother Lois Sue, a waitress in Cumby, had first noticed the small bumps on her daughter's buttocks when Stormie was three months old, it was not until last summer that she found a doctor who would take them seriously. Dr. David Bilheimer, medical director at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, took one look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A One-in-a-Million Worst Case | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...real fun begins. Predictably, Zee takes a break from walking, sitting down at Cafe Central next to Eli and Martin. When the waitress asks her if she's ready to order, Zee says yes, stares at the menu, and starts to cry. "I'll have a hamburger, no, spaghetti and bacon and sausage (all the things she feels she should have cooked for her husband), no, scratch that, I'll have chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce and a chocolate donut." By this point Zee is overwhelmed with tears, prompting Eli to inquire "Did you ever decide what you wanted...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Overcooked | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...some fall back on job and family. Rifi, a red-haired Tatar who services diesel locomotives in Samarkand, declares ebulliently, "Best of all in my life I like my work." Others, however, are inclined to become cynical and apathetic. Tanya, 21, is an attractive Muscovite who works as a waitress. Married and divorced in her teens, she is content to drift through a day-to-day existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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