Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry F. Gerguson), sixtyish, bugle-nosed, professional phony (he has claimed to be the assassin of Rasputin, a son of Victorian Prime Minister Gladstone, a cousin of Czar Nicholas), now a Beverly Hills restaurateur, who gave his age as 48; and Gloria Lister, 24, his ex-secretary; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...whole city, somnolent since the great Willkie push in 1940, throbbed with excitement. Workmen put finishing touches on the $500,000 refurbishing of Convention Hall. Five shapely models, employed by a local restaurateur, patrolled such busy intersections as Chestnut & Broad, sporting large sashes with the provocative inscription: "Ask me anything." City officials passed the word to Philadelphia police that the 2 a.m. curfew was off for the duration...
...Jimmy Moran, New Orleans restaurateur and onetime Huey Long bodyguard, who likes diamonds, added a new item to his wardrobe-trousers with a diamond-studded zipper...
Mike Romanoff, Hollywood restaurateur turned columnist, advised Eric Johnston, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman: "I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman myself, and I can tell you it's nice outdoor work. Go back, Mr. Johnston, before . . . it's too late...
Died. George Rector, 69, last of the restaurateur Rectors of Manhattan's lobster-&-champagne era; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Apple-cheeked, white-haired George carried on when father Charles died in 1914, but bowed out when Prohibition closed his last café in 1923; thereafter he nourished the Rector legend and himself by diligent publicity work, lecturing and writing, wound up as food consultant for a Chicago meat packer...