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Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady...
Master of Ceremonies. The chief contribution of its outgoing president to N.A.M.'s big show was a redefinition and embellishment of industry's favorite cliché: free enterprise. From now on, said Frederick C. Crawford of Cleveland's Thompson Products, N.A.M. would not stand for "free enterprise," but for "free, private, competitive enterprise . . . the absence of all uncontrolled monopoly and special privilege wherever they may have been found in the past." Prior to this unmistakably official statement, free enterprise could as well as not have been interpreted-and was, by some N.A.Magnates-as freedom to restrain...
...Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House. At the Old Howard the dregs and the cream of society found a common denominator. And, quite different from Bostons' more pretentious musical revues, dress was informal even on opening nights at the friendly little theatre off Scollay Square...
...battalion commander. Colonel Crawford, limped back to his C.P. (comand post), stretched flat on the ground, and said wearily: "I've been through a lot of battles. I've been wounded. But this is the toughest position I've ever had to take. Baldy's almost straight up. There's one trail but that's mined. . . ." Then he fell asleep. The next day his companies took Old Baldy and he said to TIME Correspondent Will Lang: ''My companies are thinned down, Will. I should have reinforcements before I make any more commitments...
...Touch of Venus (book by S. J. Perelman & Ogden Nash; music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Ogden Nash; produced by Cheryl Crawford...