Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...pastry world. Son of a Los Angeles flour miller named Boston Monroe Strause, he uses his middle name as a kind of trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman Strause remembers, "just like Pullman cars...
...began last fortnight, but one night last week the dither of arriving celebrities, the pop of exploding flashlights made it seem like an opening. Though Hollywood stars regularly attend the Bowl concerts, only a special occasion could have brought so many notables. Conductor Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"), was playing a program by Finnish Jan Sibelius, the composer he understands best. He was playing for the first time at the Hollywood Bowl, the first time in the U. S. this year...