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Last week Juan Trippe was ready to guide his Pan American Airways in a great new adventure which would make the world every man's oyster. And like the old Portuguese captains, who held a last open house on their high-pooped ships before they sailed off, Juan Trippe was also showing off his newest ship of the air. The ship was a great, fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first delivered to any airline. When it flew into Boston last week, it created the biggest stir since Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis landed there...
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...
Died Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 87 widow of the 26th President of the U.S.; in Oyster Bay, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...