Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribute to Mike Romanoff that some of his friends have now elevated him to the rank of king, and that anyone is willing to lend him anything like $25,000. Twenty years ago, the New Yorker published a five-part Profile on him because he then had the dubious honor of being the most fabulous and incredible impostor alive, with the added distinction of having just been deported to France for allegedly defrauding some tourists. But even as far back as 1932, the facts of his life had been so liberally larded with fiction, frequently with his aid and consent...
During his reign in the '20s and '30s, Prince Mike was sometimes broke enough to sleep on park benches, but often as not he was to be found weekending with the very rich on Long Island or at Newport, a majestic little tramp, a peerless raconteur, an engaging and enigmatic character who read a great deal, played excellent chess and, when sober, was a perfect gentleman...
...that was a long time ago. Many people have forgotten, if they ever knew, what Mike's earlier career was like. And his friends no longer care. He is now the successful proprietor and chief stockholder in one of the most famous restaurants in the U.S. It is called, with aristocratic simplicity, Romanoff's, and for any person of consequence in Hollywood not to eat there regularly would be as unthinkable as it would be for Mike, now one of the town's first citizens, to be seen having lunch at a Beverly Hills drive...
...restaurant started off modestly. The two largest sponsors -Jock Whitney and the late Bob Benchley, whom Mike had known during his New York nightlife era-subscribed only $350 apiece; Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck, only $300 each. The total take was $7,200, $1,800 short of what Mike had hoped...
George Everett joined the Student Empathy League shortly after he came to college. He soon learned to take his change in nickels and as time wore on, he was soon in all the important pinball parlors, the old Mike's Club, George's, Harry...