Word: restaurateur
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...Rochester. N. Y., restaurateur named Harold H. Clapp found himself reduced to the unmanly position of nurse, cook & bottlewasher for his two infant sons while their mother lay ill in the hospital. Unable to buy the special pureed vegetables and soups which a physician prescribed for his boys, he began straining his own vegetables, brewing Irs own soups. Manlike, he overproduced, ladled out his surplus to neighbors. Their hearty acceptance of his product led him to start a strained vegetable route. Within a year he had given up the restaurant business to found Harold H. Clapp, Inc., pioneer...
WILL COME TO NEW ORLEANS AND EAT ONE ISSUE OF THE "AMERICAN PROGRESS" WHICH WILL BE COOKED AND SEASONED FOR HIM BY THAT PEERLESS NEW ORLEANS RESTAURATEUR, MONSIEUR ROY ALCIATORE OF ANTOINE'S. I ASSURE TIME THAT THE GREAT ALCIATORE CAN EVEN MAKE A SOUFFLÉ OUT OF AN EIGHT-PAGE NEWSPAPER...
Married. Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 33, onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion, cinecomedian, Hollywood restaurateur; and one Muriel Faeder, 22; in Las Vegas...
Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
Last week Gene Tunney was in the whiskey business, Restaurateur Jack Dempsey was recuperating from an appendectomy, Babe Ruth was looking for a manager's job in the major leagues, Bobby Jones was an aging, paunchy Atlanta lawyer, Paavo Nurmi was managing a tidy fortune invested in Finnish real estate. Having accepted a back seat or had it thrust upon them, none of these once-great sporting figures was much more than a brave memory...