Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Erberhard Anheuser, a small and not very successful brewer. Son-in-law Adolphus, who combined a Teutonic genius for organization with the salesmanship of a pitchman, soon built up annual production to 25,000 barrels. In 1876, he got a new and better beer formula from a local restaurateur and called the new brew Budweiser...
Married. Hannah Williams Kahn Dempsey, 37, onetime musicomedienne (1937's Hooray for What? with Ed Wynn), and Thomas J. Monaghan, 38, nightclub entertainer; she for the third time (No. 1: Roger Wolff Kahn, son of the late Financier Otto; No. 2: Heavyweight Restaurateur William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
...story of the elephant cutlet concluded Ludwig Bemelmans' first book published here, My War with the United States (1937) As many of your readers will remember, the story concerned a Viennese restaurateur who wanted to run a restaurant such as had never existed beforehand advertised "Cutlets from Every Animal in the World." His first customer, a countess, asked for an elephant cutlet. The chef rose to the occasion with the punch line: "Madame, I am very sorry, but for one cutlet we cannot cut up our elephant...
...Stomach. Last week a progressive Viennese restaurateur named Rudolf Schiener bought Bubi's 3,500-lb. carcass. With a spirit and enterprise new to conservative old Vienna, he renamed his restaurant "The Elephant," and began experimenting with Bubi's remains in the kitchen. He wrote new menus featuring Afrikabraten (roast elephant), Bubi Schnitzel (elephant cutlet), Gulyas a la Bubi and Bubiwurst...