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Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...
...than to Heaven!"). His styles became as varied as his enthusiasms, but in his summer house in Southampton he allowed himself to relax, painted the windswept Shinnecock Hills, and the shore dotted with parasoled ladies, in glowing, impressionist colors as pure as the salt air and clean as fresh linen...
...first lilies of the valley, the smell of humus, the sight of a dead tree branch "polished, glazed, oiled by generations of reptiles"-all these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly"; in Balzac she found a lust for life that matched her own, in Proust a brilliant reflection of her love for the memories and mysteries of childhood...
...Babble-by-the-Bay." What saves his column from being a paean in the neck is Caen's fresh, irreverent eye and his breezy, gag-filled style. Unlike most gossip columnists, Herb Caen seldom rumples through dirty linen or tries to scoop the city desk, but concentrates instead on the San Franciscana he calls "sightems" or "babble-by-the-bay." Sample Caenanities: "Sign on a Volkswagen: Help Stamp Out Cads"; classified ad for a new home: "All-electric family kitchen, including natural-birth cabinets"; one matron to another matron: "No, she's not keeping the car any more...
...later they filled Dave's vacant chair with another Teamster, General Secretary-Treasurer John English, 68, a onetime coal-wagon driver who has been a Teamster 52 years, has never liked Latecomer Beck. Promised tall, dour John English: "We are going to wash our own dirty linen." The A.F.L.-C.I.O. believed him. To allow time for the scrubbing to begin, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee postponed indefinitely its scheduled investigation of the union that once belonged-lock, stock and cash drawer-to Dave Beck...