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In Manhattan OPA moved to give the rich an even break. Inspectors cracked down on 73 eating places. Most were soda fountains charging stenographers a nickel too much for a ham sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâ...
Paul Whiteman, 313-lb. band leader turned 195-lb., Blue Network musical director, was observed by Manhattan Columnist Lucius Beebe "bolting" from the Blue for the 5:31 train to his Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of...
In the New York Herald Tribune, another reporter, sensitively attuned to ihe muffled sound of plush meeting plush, described revelry in Manhattan. Wrote Columnist Lucius Beebe: "The gold rush is on. ... New York is only now in its finest and ultimate dionysiac frenzies. . . . It is only necessary to belly up...
Lucius Beebe, Manhattan exquisite who writes rococo chatter for the New York Herald Tribune, was much miffed by the wartime atmosphere. Wrote he: "... Pretentious folk are busy with cosmic urges which only tomorrow will be remembered as humorous follies and bumbling with skirmishes with destiny which next week will be...
Salvador Dali's mustaches performed for Lucius Beebe, who reported in his column that he had noted their "convulsive flutterings and bristlings" in a Manhattan nightclub as the misfortunate artist spied "a pair of absolutely identical handlebars" across the room.