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...Every man would like to be a black sheep if he could. I'm giving him the chance-in a harmless way, of course." With these words, burly, grey-haired Burton Browne, a fulltime adman and part-time restaurateur, broke ground this week for the latest firewatering place to serve Chicago's expense-account society...
Marriage Revealed. Jack Dempsey, 65. former world's heavyweight boxing champion, now a restaurateur and business promoter; and Deanna Pietelli. 38, a Manhattan jewelry store operator; he for the fourth time, she for the second. The place: "In the East" 18 months ago, according to Dempsey, who explained, "It hasn't been any secret. My wife just didn't want any publicity, that...
Undivided Fame. For a professed cynic, Wilder was born at an unlikely time and place-the Johann Straussian Vienna of 1906. The son of a well-to-do restaurateur, Billy dodged law school at 19, signed on as a reporter for a Vienna daily. At 20, he was off to Berlin as a movie and drama reviewer. Not long afterward, he fell in love with a dancer and was fired for neglecting his work. Next thing he knew, Billy himself was dancing for his supper as a nightclub gigolo, and writing film scripts on the side. At 27, with...
...involving the shakedown of a businessman by a brace of phony policemen. In jail, Sorlut soon began singing, gave the police a score of names of prominent Parisians to whom he had supplied young girls-politicians, manufacturers, department-store directors, a hairdresser, a fashionable tailor, an art curator, a restaurateur, a countess...
...Honors Lists. Old members of the lodge see an old pattern: small colleges seek big names for publicity, women's colleges inevitably revere women, and big colleges serenely honor ability. Few would dare to claim that the quality of degrees is rising: only two years ago a Manhattan restaurateur got a doctorate of laws from the University of Idaho for ''promoting better health with his genuine Idaho baked potatoes." Nor is public-relations prose improving the quality of citations, which used to be honed to a fine salutatory precision by such masters as Yale's William...