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Renzo Cesana who, as The Continental, appears twice a week over Los Angeles' station KNBH. He purrs at his admirers in a sex-laden. Boyer-esque voice, enhancing his determinedly un-American manner with a monocle and ascot tie. He is surrounded by such emblems of the lady-killer as Chinese prints, a library of love lyrics and magnums of champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Latin Lover | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Pickets in Ascot Ties. Pierce Brothers claimed to be the first in the U.S. to advertise low-price funerals, first to send motorcycle escorts with the casket coach (nobody any longer calls them hearses in the profession) and first (outside New York itself) to embalm 6,000 remains in a year. In 50 peppy years of growth, it has dedicated a main mortuary with 20 "reposing rooms" (all named for famous authors) and 13 cheerful branch plants to the uplifting or happy funeral. But last week, gloom, finally came to Pierce Brothers, and moved to Forest Lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scuffling In the Temple | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers). Then-Pierce Brothers complained-they mischievously switched the routing tag on a casket and sent a loved one to the wrong service. And on top of that, 19 of them (simply because they had been fired) began picketing Pierce funerals in Ascot ties and morning coats-apparel which contrasted nicely with their strikers' signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scuffling In the Temple | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Trio, three more W. Somerset Maugham short stories, is keeping the Sutton in business, at 57th and Second. Another English feature is the witty Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness, "the best actor of 1950." The Interborough Rapid Transit stops a stone's throw from the Ascot at 183rd and Grand Concourse in the Bronx...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...missed them before and are willing to go a long way to see them, The Raven and A Lover's Return opened yesterday at the Ascot at 183 Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Paris 1900 is at the Embassy (42nd and Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

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