Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...
Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...
Except during the summer, when he bakes himself to a burnished mahogany on Santa Monica's beach, he weekends at his Palm Springs estate, 100 miles from Los Angeles, where the Zanucks usually entertain 12 to 16 guests. Among the regulars: Elsa Maxwell, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, the Louis Jourdans, the Reginald Gardiners, Clifton Webb, Agents Charles Feldman and Fefe Ferry...
While driving along a bumpy Texas road one day in 1936, Oklahoma Restaurateur Beverly Osborne and his wife began munching on their home-packed box lunch of fried chicken. When a piece of chicken slipped from her fingers, Mrs. Osborne let out a disgruntled complaint: "This is really eating chicken in the rough." Osborne brushed aside the complaint because he liked the phrase. He thought it was just the proper slogan to persuade Americans to eat fried chicken in public the way they do at home-with their fingers...
Died. Charles Coastas, 58, former Honolulu restaurateur whose generous hospitality toward wounded servicemen during the war won him a Navy citation and the grateful title, "One-Man U.S.O."; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...