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...sauce hollandaise-an eruption of Gallic temperament that temporarily closed Le Pavilion, considered by many the best French restaurant in the U.S. and by all check signers, among the most expensive (consommé: $2). In a fit of pique, Pierre Franey quit as Le Pavilion's head chef after Owner Henri Soulé demanded that he cut five hours of overtime off the work week of the kitchen staff in order to slash the operating expenses of the restaurant. An artist of the kitchen, Franey refused, said: "If I do it, my men quit on me. They are underpaid...
...feud ended a stormy relationship that began in 1939 at the New York World's Fair. Soulé, who ran the French restaurant in Flushing Meadow, hired Franey as a poissonier (fish chef). After the fair, Soulé decided to open Le Pavilion, and brought along Franey. Seven years ago, he made Franey head chef, told him: "You and I are getting married. It's going to be very stormy, but we have no right to part." But last week the marriage was on the rocks. Choked Soulé: "He was like...
...meprobamate, better known as Miltown or Equanil. The defendants: Carter Products, Inc., recent loser in a 17-year struggle with the FTC to preserve the "Liver" in Carter's Little Liver Pills, and giant (1959 sales: $450 million) American Home Products, which sells 90 household products, from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli to Anacin and Preparation H (for hemorrhoids). Trustbusters charged that Carter, which developed meprobamate and controls one-third of the market, and American Home Products, which controls the other two-thirds under a licensing deal with Carter, conspired to fence out the competition and gouge the customers...
...runs up a tab at The Clouds; drinks are bought when served. There is a strapping Negro chef named Peewee, who can build a sandwich or a pizza if anyone really wants to eat. And there is always a bouncer-headwaiter at the door to see that the servicemen, who make up at least half the clientele, are legally old enough to get oiled enough to make noise enough to drown out a singer who deserves a silent room. For all that, in the constricted world of Hawaiian night life, Ann Weldon's talent rides over the racket with...
...long parliamentary silence. His speech in full: "May I say I accept most gratefully and eagerly both forms of compliments." Afterward, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated the anniversary at their Hyde Park Gate home, which they had fled a day earlier to avoid getting underfoot while the chef and a platoon of servants were scurrying about while manning their party stations...