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Died. Owen E. Brennan, 45, New Orleans restaurateur, owner of Brennan's Vieux Carre restaurant (a three-hour breakfast at $9.45), and the Latin Quarter landmark across the street, the Old Absinthe House (founded c. 1805); of a heart attack; in New Orleans...
...production from a trickle to 25,000 bbls. within eight years. He also began brewing Budweiser after a tour of Europe. According to the apocryphal story, Adolphus got the secret formula of the famed brew of a monastery. Actually, he developed the formula with Carl Conrad, a St. Louis restaurateur, tried to match the light beer he found in the Bohemian town of Budweis. He felt that it would become more popular in the U.S. than the heavy beer then being made. He was the first big brewer to perfect refrigerated railroad cars, thus opening vast new markets...
Married. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of a harmonica band ("Harmonica Rascals"), turned Paris restaurateur; and Lucille Watson-Little, 30, former costume designer for the Ringling Bros. Circus; both for the second time (her marriage to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor was annulled); in Méreville, France...
Married. Martha Wright, 29, sprightly singing star of stage and television (The Martha Wright Show), seasoned veteran of a record 1,047 performances as Nurse Nellie Forbush in the hit musical South Pacific; and George J. Manuche Jr., 34, New York restaurateur; in Newburgh...
Beating Krider into town by a day, Wolfson gave a new set of supporters, inluding Restaurateur Toots Shor, Jack Dempsey and Joe and Dom DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled...