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...rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...
...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...
...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...