Word: mizner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...dapper Robert Howard Cobb, 43, who is often mistaken for Actor William Powell ("I don't think Powell's quite as good an actor as I am"). Bob Cobb has managed the Brown Derby since its opening, is now president and biggest stockholder (cofounders Somborn and Mizner died ten years...
...Gambler Mizner was convicted of operating a gambling house in Mineola, N.Y., was pardoned by Governor Al Smith...
...left Sid with $250, which he promptly lost in a crap game. He picked up the concession for selling newspapers from the States - buying them for 18?, selling them for a dollar. He sold the first paper for $50 to the late, great and witty confidence man, Wilson Mizner, only to see Mizner charge 500 illiterate miners 50? apiece to read them the news...
...premeer Wilson Mizner drove up to the Egyptian in a dilapidated Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...