Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's best. (Just before Errol Flynn's acquittal on charges of consorting with a minor, she quipped: "I hear you took a party of 14 to the Mocambo and couldn't get a table.") One of the few times she came out second was when Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ended an argument by kicking her in the foot...
...week's end, the average restaurant operator was developing ulcers, anxiety and severe tension. Most of them piously -and some even happily-guaranteed compliance. Hollywood's phony prince, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff (who sometimes allows his bulldog to sit up at the table with him and eat meat), said: "I will do anything to avoid the horrors of rationing." Some did it glumly. Manhattan's famed steak house, Gallagher's, closed on Tuesday, ran a newspaper ad which read:, "No Steaks, No Gallagher's." But in most cases it was not quite that simple...
...handed out memorial awards for Director Antoinette Perry (Harvey, Kiss the Boys Goodbye), who died last year. Among the recipients: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Fredric March, for their Broadway performances this season; Mr. & Mrs. Ira Katzenberg (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939) for their durability as first-nighters; Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Sr., "for providing a . . . comfort station for theater folk. . . ." The men got gold money clips, the women Tiffany compacts with "little automatic windshield wipers on the mirrors...
Stock Question. In Decatur, Ind., Restaurateur Lem Ehler rebelled at saying "No meat," posted a large sign: "How do you want your eggs...
...Yorkers last week had the rare pleasure of seeing a restaurateur presented with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional...