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...insomniac, he reads voraciously when he can't sleep, calls sleeplessness "culture's greatest ally." He drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights...
...because lines forming the skeleton play against lines representing turbulence in the water. The result is a fish which looks alive. Chermayeff's other fish in a large, blue water-color are quite dead and only make a pattern which would look pleasant on a bed-spread. "Breakfast at Sardi's" evokes humor and excitement. Except for two good pen-and-brush nudes, his other contributions. Chermayeff's sense of line and balance, nevertheless, is acute and at times rather pleasing...
Married. Renee Carroll, fortyish, Manhattan's taffy-haired, mink-coated No. 1 hatcheck girl, since opening day in 1927 queen of the cloakroom at Sardi's restaurant; and Louis Schonceit, 50, Broadway ticket broker and show backer; he for the second time; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
Halfway Back. The sarcasm is more friendly than biting, for Kingman takes a naïve delight in U.S. ways. He keeps the radio in his studio going constantly ("It softens my mind and helps me paint. I know all about Luncheon at Sardi's and Heigh-ho, Silver!"), and all through dinner he watches television programs with his wife and two children. "To Chinese people," he says, "football is very queer, but I like to go and see the games. Also, I play bridge once a week...
While most of the covers drawn by your staff artists are masterpieces of a sort ... in the case of Oscar Hammerstein it might have been interesting to present him as he appears on the walls of Sardi's in one of Card's caricatures. After all, being done by Card for Sardi's is the epitome of theatrical fame on Broadway to most show people...