Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milwaukee-born Hans ("Dean of Radio Commentators") von Kaltenborn went into radio in the breathless, carbon-mike '20s. In the course of his news gathering, he had an opportunity to rub elbows and knock heads with some of contemporary history's greatest heroes and biggest heels. With no foolish pretense to modesty, Fifty Fabulous Years recalls some of his most colorful experiences...
...apothegm is the proprietor of both a good restaurant and an unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...
...chiefly because of rising overhead and the fact that bar revenues, which once accounted for 50% of the gross, have tumbled. The reason: no one wants to drink at the bar and be branded a nobody. That is particularly true when choice empty tables are marked "reserved." Says Mike: "It's very bad for the morale for one to walk past those empty booths and be shunted to a rear table. Customers are affronted...
Last week, in recognition of this state of affairs, Mike Romanoff gathered some of his friends together for a historic event. On a vacant lot in Beverly Hills, Ethel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Ann Miller, Ronald Colman and scores of other stars watched as Mike laid the cornerstone for a new restaurant...
...open in February, will have some improvements. Its bar will be in a separate room, away from the scornful stares of the dress circle, so that customers can take their drinks on the hoof without feeling they are social outcasts. And to help pay the overhead, Mike's new place will have a private banquet room, a liquor store and a gift shop. Explained Mike grandly: "I decided to establish a Romanoff Center. I felt I was entitled to it if the Rockefellers were...