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Recited Author Gelett ("Purple Cow") Burgess to the Gourmet Society at a dinner in The Bronx...
...Admiral Pratt express, I thoroughly disagree with him. But I certainly do not and have not shivered because I disagree with such views and I don't believe that other "navy hardshells" have either. About the little dig in the last sentence of your article which reads, "A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar." What is the idea? ... To ridicule our next Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet? Whatever the idea, I think what you have said in the quotation above, even if it were true...
Admiral Hepburn was born in Carlisle, Pa. 58 years ago, is the father of two Philadelphia sons, one a lawyer, the other a stockbroker. Since the hard-felt death of his wife two years ago he has kept apart from most social activities. A gourmet who would be a gourmand but for pride in his slim figure, he likes golf, fine wines, caviar...
Crapouillot now appears bimonthly, has an average circulation of 50,000 which occasionally spurts to 100,000. Tall, handsome, 47, author of four novels, Editor Galtier-Boissière is famed as a gourmet and as the best-dressed of French literati. His immunity from libel suits makes knowing Frenchmen nod, credit his exposures with deadly accuracy...
...James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal...