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Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...
...carefully catered to the whims of such tourists as Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...
World's Great Novels (Fri. 11:30p.m., NBC). First of four programs dramatizing Balzac's César Birotteau...
Novelist Louis Bromfield was having international trouble, too. One of the Parisian characters in his three-year-old What Became of Anna Bolton was a "Madame Ritz . . . widow of the great César Ritz. . . ." He called her "a great woman," but he let her die. Last week alive-&-kicking Marie Ritz,* 79-year-old widow of the luxury-hotelman, sued Bromfield and his publishers for invasion of privacy. She noted that she had been "portrayed as dying," complained she was "being subjected to ridicule, humiliation, embarrassment and annoyance ... all to her damage in the sum of One Hundred Thousand...
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat...