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Died. I. Robert ("Bob") Kriendler, 60, Marine Corps veteran of World War II and urbane president of the 21 Club, Manhattan's lavishly appointed former speakeasy that offers social status along with costly food and drink, youngest of the four brothers who steered "friends of the house" to the right tables over the years; of a heart attack; in Westhampton Beach...
Died. Maxwell ("Mack") Kriendler, 65, former president of New York's elegant "21" Club, who boasted of knowing 50,000 people by name; of pneumonia while under treatment for cancer; in Manhattan. Kriendler, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, was for years the host at the world-famous restaurant that began as a speakeasy and became a clublike haven for celebrities, racing gentry and tycoons. The restaurant features the world's costliest hamburgers, an impressive cellar and a murky bar area decorated with scale-model beer trucks and airplanes. Mack Kriendler determined nightly...
...talents as a comedian were wasted in the army, Niven resigned his commission after only four years' service in Malta and the British Isles. In 1933 he appeared in New York City, and parlayed a London connection with Barbara Hutton into a job selling liquor for Jack Kriendler...
...ecologically perfect for Ogden" because the company already derives nearly half of its annual $1 billion sales from food growing and processing (the other half comes from such varied interests as scrap metals, land development and shipbuilding). The merger also solved a problem for "21" 's owners: the Kriendler brothers Bob and Pete, their cousin Jerry Berns and their nephew Sheldon Tannen. The family has run the restaurant for the past 40 years. Lately, Bob Kriendler had been wondering if the family should sell it lest the death of one owner create estate problems that might impair the business...
...would," replied Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, a friend of 30 years, when Kriendler mentioned his dilemma last August. Because of precisely the same situation, Luckman had recently brought his own firm, Charles Luckman Associates, into Ablon's realm as a part of Ogden Development Corp. By coincidence, that deal had been struck over a two-hour lunch at "21". Ablon, who is also a regular patron, quickly agreed that safeguarding such a symbol of opulence would be good business for Ogden...