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Died. Lionel Clark Sternberger, 56, proprietor of a Los Angeles steak house (The Rite Spot) who, at the hungry age of 16, experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger while helping out at his father's sandwich shop in Pasadena, thereby inventing the cheeseburger; of complications following diabetes; in Glendale, Calif...
...million. To accommodate varying tastes along the Western seaboard, it publishes in four editions: one each for the Pacific Northwest, the Central Pacific states, the Pacific Southwest and, beginning with the current issue, a fourth directed at desert dwellers. But for all its expansion, Sunset has not really changed. Proprietor Lane, now 73, has given way to his two sons. Melvin, 41, is a vice-president. As publisher, Son Bill, 43, not only looks like his father but runs Sunset just...
...Paper with a Heart." About all that kept the Mirror going was its proprietor's reluctance to part with any of his properties. "Pop held on to some real dogs," said William Randolph Hearst Jr. recently. The Mirror was one of those dogs, and although the Chief knew it, he did not seem to care. "Dear Arthur," he wrote in a now-famous memo to Arthur Brisbane, who was then the Mirror's publisher: "You are now getting out the worst newspaper...
...cabin after cabin, there is a color picture of the President of the United States. Yes, sir, says one oldtimer gesturing to a photo on the wall, "he was a great man, that Franklin D. Roosevelt." And over in the Dirty Shame Saloon, Grocery Store and Gas Station, Proprietor "Buster" Bray, formerly of San Francisco, says: "I wouldn't trade any of this for Third and Market Streets-not ever again...
...Abyssinia. He was indeed a nuisance, even to the men who hired his skill. From Lord Beaverbrook, for whom he went to work in 1927, Low exacted the promise that he could draw whatever he chose. That choice was rarely to the proprietor's Tory tastes; Low's brushwork punctured the Conservative Party, the Beaver's dreams of British Empire, and the Beaver himself. Low once depicted his boss as a witch on a broomstick, preaching "politics for child minds." When Beaverbrook urged his staff to go light on Mussolini's rape of Abyssinia, Low impudently...