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Show WAITER ALLOWED FOR COBB Booth Tarkington's Amusing Illustration Illustra-tion of Student Life in Munich Before the War. "Munich before the war," said Boolh Tarkington, the famous novelist, "was an earthly paradise. For len cents hi a Munich beer garden you would get a quart mug of ambrosial beer and a brace of incomparable frankfurters a meal which you would consume to the music of Wagner and Beethoven, played by a vast and magnificent orchestra. or-chestra. "Of course, In Munich the art students stu-dents poor fools sometimes drank too much. They tell a story then, about a Missouri student. " 'Another large beer and two frankfurters frank-furters for Student Cobb of Missouri,' a Munich waiter sang out one night " 'Only give Student Cobb one frankfurter,' frank-furter,' said the manager of the garden. gar-den. Student Cobb cees everything double.' " 'I've already attended to that,' said the waiter, 'Cobb ordered four frankfurters.' frank-furters.' " |