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...Buffalo's brightest boys, by the sworn word of his parents, was young Patrick Lepeiro, 11. One day Patrick was bumped by the automobile of Mrs. Edward J. Laube, wife of a well-to-do restaurateur. After that, according to the Lepeiros, Patrick fell behind in his studies. He was subject to head pains, fits of giggling. He played with younger children. Mr. & Mrs. Lepeiro took their dull son to Psychiatrist Hyman Levin of the Buffalo State Hospital. Dr. Levin gave him an intelligence test, flunked him, and last week went to court to help the Lepeiros collect...
...early-morning darkness on a lonely New Jersey road President George D. Strohmeyer of Child's Restaurants ("The Nation's Host") focused his eyes on a roadside sign: Maridell Inn. Restaurateur Strohmeyer and two companions made their way to the sign, yanked it down, drove on in high spirits. On a street corner in Spring Lake a patrolman found them few minutes later gazing happily at a bonfire blazing from the splinters of the sign. For their prank Funster Strohmeyer & friends divided a fine of $75 and $19.50 costs...
...Branch, L. I. seeking permission for a reorganization under the new bankruptcy law. A Manhattan newspaper promptly headlined the item: EGGS (INC.) BUSTED. A quality poultry farm handling as many as 100,000 chickens, 1,000,000 eggs a year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last...
Died. Henry Mouquin, 97, famed Manhattan restaurateur and wine merchant; of old age; at his Williamsburg, Va. estate which he bought in 1871, and to which he retired in disgust at the advent of Prohibition. Born near Lausanne to a family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes...
Week before, Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson had "cracked down" on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, a market owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that...