Word: delicatesseners
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...depths of a batting slump, the New York Yankees' hefty Rightfielder Hank Bauer was accused of almost knocking the cover off a well-stuffed (close to 200 Ibs.) Manhattan delicatessen owner. The victim was laid up with a cracked nose, broken jaw and slight concussion. The victim's brother, foggily shifting the locale of the brawl among various dingy recesses of Manhattan's brassy Copacabana nightclub, asserted that Bauer, known to his pals as "The Bruiser," did it. As far as Bauer would allow, it must have been two other guys. The victim, unsure about his slugger...
...whose home is now in Tennessee, came to Carolina, he says, because "I can't see getting on a subway and going to school." Also of the varsity squad, Bob Cunningham, 20, comes from The Bronx; Stan Groll, 19, is still searching about Chapel Hill for a corner delicatessen where he can buy a corned-beef sandwich like the ones he used to eat in Brooklyn; Pete Brennan, 20, hails from Brooklyn; and Tommy Kearns, 20, from New Jersey...
Hattie and Rose went into business together (Hattie made hats to go with Rose's dresses), moved to an uptown shop above a delicatessen and a Chinese restaurant. Their only advertising was Hattie herself, but it was enough. Soon Soprano Alma Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first...
...CAPTAIN RICHARD. British newspapers lovingly frontpaged the event. The U.S. Hearst chain extracted eight articles from McCutchen on his life and times (BE "CAPTAIN COOK'S" GUEST, shouted the headlines). State fairs beseeched his appearance. Publishers begged him to write cookbooks. In a New York delicatessen, the proprietor refused to let him leave without a 3-ft. gift roll of salami. But from Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. came the most important response of all: Captain Richard S. McCutchen, USMC, was ordered to Washington to review the sunset parade and dine (on roast beef) amid the general...
...Wursthaus patron, however, thought that prohibition in Cambridge would be a good thing, for "then Harvard would have a better football team." The bartender said "I could always switch to the delicatessen business...