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...last week that an "Elmer Calling Contest" was held at the Chicago Fair; and nerve-frazzled New Yorkers wrote letters to newspapers about the "malignant growth," the "contagious stupidity" of the greeting. Colyumist Walter Winchell printed a story that "Elmer" was a 300-lb. Brooklyn restaurateur named Elmann Neilsen, good and generous friend of Legionaries who would loudly page him wherever they went. Shrewdly Elmann Neilsen capitalized his fame last week by hanging a sign in his restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts are: A division of the "40-&-8" Legion parade in Chicago...