Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barney Oldfield, oldtime auto racer, had a fight in Hollywood with "Prince" Mike Romanoff (Harry Gerguson), Hollywood restaurateur. Oldfield got a black eye. He said the argument started after Romanoff had tried to crowd him off the road. Romanoff declared that Oldfield had rushed up to him on the street, called him a "phony...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, resting on Brazil's Brocoio Island off Rio de Janeiro (TIME, July 24), was reported inclined toward U.S.-style cooking. Restaurateur Alfredo Balbis, catering to her party, also said that though her diet forbids seafood, she demanded shrimp and got it. Other items in demand: Coca-Cola, mineral water, port...
...Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
...Prince" Mike Romanoff, Prohibition's most famed impostor, now a successful Hollywood restaurateur, was a pseudo-princely visitor in a 39th-floor suite of Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre. East on an optimistic liquor-buying trip, the Prince discussed a 33-acre hotel he plans to build in Beverly Hills. Speaking of his former attitude toward the press, he remarked: "The morgue is the god of the Fourth Estate; there, sufficient multiplication of error is its verification as fact. The freedom of the press is the same as poetic license; it allows them to say anything. ... I assure...
Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady...