Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left-handed Lew Tendler used to fight Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard so regularly that the names of the two fighters sounded like the title of a corporation, Philadelphia has always had at least one first-rate functioning fighter of one sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying to rebuild the reputation...
...musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...little girl in a petticoat. Mrs. Mary Y. Henderson got it for $100 last week. Old Mrs. Henderson's love of animals again forced her to pay $10,000 for an oil painting of a four-horse brewery hitch by Edmund de Pratere. George Goodacre, local restaurateur, got it for $310 to put in his lunchroom...
...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...