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...replied, "We have a cottage cheese endowment like your ice cream fund." He puffed his chest and announced, "I have word from the highest authority that there is no ice-cream endowment. This is a myth which should be exploded...
...prow of a gondola. Meanwhile, she worked hard to prove herself an expert mimic. She can skillfully play Cockneys, Scotsmen, Irishmen and Americans. Critics like her ("Her main gift is impertinence. Not only does she stimulate the libido, she also transmits charm . . . and is about as neurotic as an ice-cream cornet*"). The public takes...
Workman's Compensation. In Birmingham, after being arrested for drunken pedaling of his three-wheeled ice-cream cart. Thomas Bogan, 53, was "grounded" for 60 days by Recorder's Court Judge Oliver Hall, but charged only one-fourth of the usual fine because he was "generating his own power...
...look for investments and find them: Ontario (Calif.) Aircraft Executive Glenn Odekirk has interests in desert tungsten and uranium; Hollywood Actor John Ireland and Tennis Star Don Budge are building a swank, $298,000 racquet club outside Phoenix. The less well-heeled look for likely sites for gas stations, ice-cream routes, or the acquaintance of semebody "who's got something good." Even those without cash find it easier on the desert to try new jobs and to borrow money with no more collateral than a good idea...
Sonnabend's efforts to improve Childs (which lost $698,000 in 1953) do not stop with putting it into a new company. He has closed unprofitable restaurants (leaving him with 35 in ten cities, largely on the East Coast), sold its ice-cream producing subsidiary (Sherry's) and retired a $500,000 bank loan. Last year he paid out $3,398,500 for two food-processing companies in order to diversify, recently began experimenting with new, slightly higher-priced restaurants. The changes cost money, and last year Childs lost $687,500. This year Sonnabend "hopes" that Childs will...