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...Stouffer (rhymes with "gopher") sold his Cleveland creamery to enjoy the ease he had looked for all his life. The ease came hard. Affable, garrulous, he missed talking to people. There was nothing to do. Back to work went Father Stouffer, opened a tiny, stand-up dairy counter (milk & buttermilk) in Cleveland's old Arcade Building. Fearful that her husband's customers weren't getting enough to eat, Mother Stouffer sent over one of the Dutch apple pies her friends had praised. It was a sensation...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under...
Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...Actress Tallulah Bankhead cast as a temperamental actress, stalking about on her heels, slapping the furniture to accentuate her outbursts, lowering her voice to a sepulchral baritone, leaning backward at an angle of 30° while combing her hair, ordering a midnight supper of two pork chops, Julienne potatoes, buttermilk, salted peanuts. Written seven years ago by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Craig's Wife and The Show-Off, Reflected Glory at least has the distinction of being Tallulah Bankhead's most creditable vehicle since her repatriation five years...