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...growing areas. To increase volume quickly, he bought control of four independent stores in the Chicago area, opened some 20 new modern retail stores in major shopping areas and equipped them with consumer-drawing features that would have shocked Sewell Avery: check-cashing booths, hunting and fishing license departments, gourmet and shoe-repair shops. By the end of 1958, Barr had reduced Ward's cash hoard from $327 million to $94.7 million. Says he: "By the end of 1959, we will have put all of our excess cash, previously invested in low-earning securities, to work in higher-earning...
Birrell spent the night in a one-man cell after supping on beans, rice and manioc flour, a far cry from the gourmet's cuisine that is his normal fare. Next morning he admitted the false-entry charges, then folded. Said Robbery and Theft Division Chief Fernando Ribeiro: "He was a broken man, broken, broken, broken." Debonairly dressed, but with sweaty brow and tremulous lips, Birrell cried: "I don't care how much it costs; I'm going to beat the rap. I'm ready to go back to the U.S. and face trial...
Last Shift. In Hollywood, disgusted at a turnover of 30 managers in eleven years at the Gourmet restaurant, where she works. Waitress Mary Rushton bought the place...
Died. Duncan Hines, 78, roadside gourmet, compiler of Adventures in Good Eating (listing 3,400 recommended restaurants), Lodging For a Night (4,000 hostelries), and Adventures in Good Cooking, who traveled over 2,000,000 miles tasting food, charged nothing for a listing in his books, $10-$20 a year for rental of a Duncan Hines sign; of cancer; in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1956, Duncan Hines's assorted gastronomic enterprises became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble...
Police in seven states were looking for Alfred A. Knopf Jr., only son of leading Publisher (Borzoi Books), Gourmet and Skier Alfred A. Knopf Sr. Young (19) Knopf had left home and a summer job with a printing firm, despondent over being refused by Princeton, and determined (as he said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly...