Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James K. Dobbs, millionaire Memphis auto dealer and airport restaurateur, has reported a strange coincidence regarding TIME'S story on him in our Aug. 15 Business & Finance department. "On the day the story appeared," he said, "I boarded a plane going to Dallas. A woman sitting next to me was reading a copy of TIME when all of a sudden she burst out with 'Oh, my goodness!' Everybody on the plane turned around and she exclaimed, pointing to my picture, 'I'm sitting beside...
...still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...
During the communal riots in Delhi, a Moslem restaurateur saw a fellow Moslem slaughtered in front of the shop. He went to the phone and got Nehru directly. "Wait ten minutes!" cried the Prime Minister. "I'll be right down." In ten minutes, Nehru was on the scene with truckfuls of police. From the middle of the street, bent over a map of the district, he directed the cleanup of looters...
...Francisco's famed Armenian restaurateur, George Mardikian, complained that New England's cooks did not take proper advantage of Atlantic sea. food; he gave them 2% more years to achieve a masterpiece, or he would come east and achieve it himself...
Only the most fastidious of hosts were above it all. Asked whether horse was likely soon to replace whale meat or snoek in Britain, one Soho restaurateur replied: "Madame, we never serve these things. None of them can be tamed to the palate...