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Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh...
Builder of the Bi-Craft is 38-year-old George Yates, who last week not only had sold the first plane (to Portland Restaurateur Paul F. Ryan) but had been informed that from now on he will have more financial backing, can soon produce the Geodetics in quantity. After his partner and test pilot Allen David Greenwood, Oregon Aeronautics Inspector, had landed from the flight over town, jubilant Builder Yates announced that a syndicate of Portland citizens would shortly begin construction of a plane factory...
...Einstein was ambling down Princeton's Nassau Street one day, waving amiably to tradesmen who gawped at him from doorways, when a Greek restaurateur timidly accosted him, asked him what lay outside the bounds of the known universe. The professor grinned, said: "Ja, do not worry; you don't go out there...
...Pressed to explain why New York Telephone Co. does not employ an "equitable number" of Jews, one official replied that Jewish girls could not operate equipment "because their arms are too short." A restaurateur alibied that Jewish waitresses do not like to serve nonkosher food...
...Famed Restaurateur Henri Charpentier, who says he invented Crepes Suzette* closed down his restaurant at Lynbrook, L. I., where for nearly 30 years he catered to Morgans, Vanderbilts, Roosevelts. Reason: taxes and "the present lack of appreciation for fine food." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt explained why she never writes out her speeches: "I found that if I did not have to think about what I was saying, I became bored with my own conversation." As the $51,065-ton Italian liner Rex slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after...