Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Nelson Doubleday, 59, shrewd, hulking (6 ft. 5 in., 220 lbs.) book publisher (Doubleday & Co.); of cancer; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The No. 1 book salesman of his time, he took over the business from his father, bought out the Literary Guild in 1934, ended up operating six book clubs, a nationwide chain of bookstores, two reprint and mail-order houses (his presses ran off 30 million books in 1948). As a child he persuaded Rudyard Kipling to write Just So Stories, collected a 1? royalty on each copy sold in his lifetime...
...best bock and German food can be found at Jake Wirth's. For lobster dinners, go to the Crimson Lobster House; while the Union Oyster House specializes in the whole gamut of seafood. Steak in all its forms can certainly be found at Lloyd's Steak House, and at Jim Cronin's. If you hanker for an after-dinner liqueur, the Oxford Grille has it; and maniacs who would walk a mile for fish and chips, go to Huck Finn's in Chelsea...
...Coach Grille, the Belia Vista, and the O. G. are old stand-bys for residents of the Square, but the more ambitious and opulent may care to venture in town to such famous spots as Locke Obers, Jake Wirth's the Parker House, the Union Oyster House, or Durgin Park, all of which are within easy distance of what passes for the Hub's light belt...
...avoided the public eye. She devoted herself to her family and friends, entertained the local Women's Republican Club, was always ready to help charity drives and benefits for servicemen. Every year on her birthday, the family gathered at her Long Island home, at Oyster...
Died Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 87 widow of the 26th President of the U.S.; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...