Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...
...well says that if Mikoyan had emigrated to the U.S. he would now be "heading his own export-import firm with a triplex apartment on Park Avenue." But ex-Ambassador Walter ("Beedle") Smith, less impressed, says, "Take away his ZIS limousine and Mikoyan would look like just another rug peddler in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo...
...Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says...
...harsh with "Art" Peddler Lowitz. This is the Dingbat Age, in which anything can happen. J. F. HARRINGTON Los Angeles...
...interviewer: "I am strictly a no-talent guy myself." But he probably can commandeer more live talent than anybody in broadcasting. Born and educated in Philadelphia, Manie, who looks like a rough draft of Frank Sinatra, learned show business as an actors' agent (show biz lingo: "flesh peddler") for the Music Corp. of America, then took over bookings for Columbia Records. In that job, he successfully persuaded Dinah Shore, Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Xavier Cugat to switch their recording allegiance to Columbia from RCA Victor. In 1950, Manie himself switched to RCA Victor, and brought in his wake...