Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Francis Powers appears to have altered Nathan Male's famous quotation, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country...
...nameless U.S. official's reference to Francis Powers as "no Nathan Hale," it is time we remembered that Mr. Kale's inspiring words were uttered on the gallows, not in the prisoner's dock. Heroic last words should not be compared with a defense action in a trial at law, albeit a "rigged" trial...
...Nathan's boss and founder is tiny, tanned Nathan Handwerker, 68, who came to the U.S. from Poland in 1912 and four years later opened his own hot dog stand on Coney Island with a $300 stake. When suspicious customers wondered how he sold hot dogs for 5? (v. the standard 10? price), Handwerker used a trick that some TV advertisers tried 20 years later. He hired students, had them clean up and dress in white jackets to look like doctors. Then they stood around eating Nathan's hot dogs in full view of passersby...
Paprika & Snap. Ever since a new subway brought the big crowds to Coney Island in 1920, Nathan's has been a moneymaker; last year it grossed more than $3,000,000. Under prodding from his two sons, Nathan has reluctantly expanded into a Long Island restaurant and a catering service. He has also diversified his fare, now sells 4,500 lbs. of shrimp and 1,400 lbs. of frogs' legs each summer weekend. Although businessmen often offer to back him in a nationwide chain, Nathan always refuses. "I won't have my, name over the door...
...Nathan arrives at work by 4 a.m. every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital...