Word: restaurateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dave Chasen, 74, celebrated Hollywood restaurateur who gave up being a vaudeville ham to serve steak to the stars; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Chasen became a favorite with audiences as Comedian Joe Cook's dizzy straight man in the '20s and '30s. When vaudeville declined, he opened a six-table chili-and-spare-ribs joint in Beverly Hills. Chasen's show business comrades-among them, Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford and W.C. Fields-became loyal patrons and helped build Chasen's into show biz's most glamorous beanery...
...from West Germany, Canada and the U.S. to cash in on the resulting labor shortage. While abroad, many of them also developed entrepreneurial and managerial skills. Even Greek restaurant owners, expatriate fixtures in cities round the globe, are returning. Says Nick Sokaris, U.S.-born son of an Albany, N.Y., restaurateur, who opened his own Stage Coach restaurant in Athens in mid-1971: "I had to decide whether to stay in Greece or go back to the States, and I decided the real opportunity was in Greece. The restaurant is a success now, and there is room in Athens...
...wanting money." His stock in Tropicana Products, Inc. of Bradenton, Fla., rose $59 million, to $128 million. Rossi, who still speaks in the accents of the Sicily that he left 51 years ago, founded the company in 1946 after a varied career as cab driver, bricklayer, tomato farmer and restaurateur, and he owns 24% of Tropicana's shares. He was one of the first to discover the North's thirst for chilled orange juice shipped from Florida, and has kept the company growing by innovations that have cut the cost of packaging and shipping the juice...
...friends and customers, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Ed Sullivan, Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey. The former champion answered with a playful right to the jaw. Said one guest as the mid-afternoon party neared midnight: "I'll probably be here for breakfast...
Down the long elegant candlelit years since Le Pavilion opened in Manhattan in 1941, even the most jaded of gourmets have agreed that there was no restaurant in the U.S. quite like it. Founded in the finest French tradition by Master Restaurateur Henri Soule, Le Pavilion immediately established itself as the very best of a small but choice selection of places in which it was as gratifying to be seen as it was to be served the splendid fare. No detail was unimportant to Soule. He used only Baccarat crystal, for instance, and seated guests as carefully as he selected...