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...popular inanity by last week that an "Elmer Calling Contest" was held at the Chicago Fair; and nerve-frazzled New Yorkers wrote letters to newspapers about the "malignant growth," the "contagious stupidity" of the greeting. Colyumist Walter Winchell printed a story that "Elmer" was a 300-lb. Brooklyn restaurateur named Elmann Neilsen, good and generous friend of Legionaries who would loudly page him wherever they went. Shrewdly Elmann Neilsen capitalized his fame last week by hanging a sign in his restaurant window: "Here's Elmer." Double-checked Elmer facts are: A division of the "40-&-8" Legion parade...
Married. Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig, 30, "iron man" first baseman of the New York Yankees, holder of the major league record for consecutive games played (TIME. Aug. 28); and Eleanor Grace Twitchell, 27, University of Wisconsin graduate, daughter of a retired Chicago restaurateur; in New Rochelle...
...Restaurateur Komen, weight 130 lb. came out. "So you won't join the NRA?" shrieked Wright, leaping upon him, pummeling his face until the blood ran, tearing one ear loose. Somebody held up an NRA emblem. Wright pushed Komen's face against it, held it there until Komen's gory lips kissed it. The crowd whooped with glee. Wright was jailed. Komen promised to join the NRA Sept...
August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
Died. Thomas Joseph Shanley, 73, famed oldtime Broadway restaurateur; of pneumonia: at Lawrence...