Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starch. In Manhattan, a 24-year-old Negro confessed to holding up the laundry of Hyman Ostrow seven times since 1939, explained, "He was a soft touch." Happy Landings. In Cleveland, Restaurateur Joseph Sinjur tossed out a drunk, discovered too late that helpful customers had innocently thrust on the drunk a fallen wallet containing $200 - all Sinjur...
Furious, the G.L dragged the restaurateur to the post office, made him buy a $100 war bond...
Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
...Hand That Feeds. In Philadelphia, profiteering Restaurateur Lewis Campas paid $225 in fines after learning in court that some of his best customers came in every day from the OPA office just around the corner...
Frank Sinatra, teatiming at the White House at the invitation of Democratic Chairman Robert Hannegan (who also brought along Manhattan Restaurateur Toots Shor, an ex-bouncer, and Funnyman "Rags" Ragland, an ex-burlesque comic), was kidded by the President about "the art of how to make girls faint," and came away determined to buy radio time of his own to campaign for Term IV. Observed The Voice: "My fans are not all teenagers. . . . Besides, even the 15-year-olds can influence people...