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Last week, Manhattan's tabloid Daily News supplied the name for him: dark, dapper Henry Lustig, millionaire operator of the plushy, well-stocked, high-priced Longchamps chain (twelve restaurants in New York). Said the News: Treasury agents are investigating Lustig for alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes...
...Lustig promptly protested the News story. He insisted that the Treasury's probe had been requested by him to straighten out his books, that much of the cash owed the Treasury had already been paid. His explanation for the cash on hand revealed some of the tribulations of running a restaurant chain under OPA ceilings. Said he, with unblushing candor: "It is common knowledge today that many articles for consumption in public eating places as well as at home can only be purchased with cash...
Lieutenant Morton Lustig was awarded both the diploma for excellence in his studies and the Commanding Officers' award, a set of gold bars and Air Force insignia presented to the student of each class who is recognized as outstanding in all phases of work at the School...
...MYRON LUSTIG...
...Translated into English. Editor Lustig's surname means "Merry...