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...days of his youth. Chuck Percy befriended a kindly gentleman by the name of Mr. Silverstein, the proprietor of the corner delicatessen. Chuck, a curious and observant boy, noticed that Mr. Silverstein rarely closed his place of business...
...Marseille, and last week rounded up a swarm of clucking poules, from the $5 girls who hang out at the railway station to the $50 streetwalkers of the Rue Halévy. After a night in the violon (clink), the poules were warned to make themselves scarce. A bistro proprietor was gloomy about the police crackdown. "You watch," he said. "When the maquereaux run out of money, they'll take to robbing villas. It's better for Nice to have idle pimps than active robbers." He knew his maquereaux. No sooner were the poules off the street than...
Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem's once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Switches were also in the making along the politically varied length of Samuel I. Newhouse's 19-newspaper chain, whose proprietor grants his papers full editorial autonomy. Said Newhouse last week: "If I dictated the editorial policy of my papers, which I do not, all of them would endorse Johnson for President. Even so, some of my Republican papers have told me that they cannot in good conscience endorse this year's Republican candidate...
Died. Harry Grossinger, 76, founder and proprietor of New York State's famed Catskill resort, who for 50 years quietly attended to the details while his wife Jennie established herself as one of the country's best-known hostesses, seeing their original seven-room guest cottage grow into a $15 million investment with so much of everything (ski tows, heated pools, 18-hole course, a staff of 900 employees) that the 660 rooms were generally full winter and summer; of an acute coronary thrombosis; in Liberty...