Word: kriendler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...