Word: schrafft
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...Schrafft's. If not Shakespearean, the conversation was at least spirited, thanks to Bleeck's ban on radios and jukeboxes. Also barred were French fries and ice cream. Customers gauche enough to request either were caustically advised to try Schrafft's down the street. Furnished in what historians of the day termed "early Butte, Montana" style, Bleeck's boasted mahogany-paneled walls and clustered electric globes, a suit of concrete-filled armor on which many a combative drunk broke his knuckles, a stuffed sailfish that had been caught by J. P. Morgan, and some...
...Argus-eyed and suspicious-minded operatives of Willmark seem to be everywhere, checking on employee morality, trustworthiness, courtesy and efficiency for more than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian employers, including Montgomery Ward, Allied Stores, F. W. Woolworth, Schrafft's and Sears. Every major U.S. auto manufacturer engages Willmark to "shop" the showrooms and report on which models the dealers are pushing hardest. Willmark men and women also watch for gypsters and- short-change artists at Disneyland concessions and patrol Playboy Clubs tempting fluffy-tailed Bunnies to break the strict rules against dating customers after hours...
Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste for wall-to-wall carpeting; in Manhattan...
...Winter White House. At the south end, Swedish Heavyweight Ingemar Johansson was training for his return match with Floyd Patterson. And in the democratic spirit of the times, one of the season's first emerald-glittering affairs was last week's opening of a new Schrafft's restaurant in the Royal Poinciana Plaza, an event of sufficient importance to attract Joseph P. Kennedy, William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Billy Graham...
Just before curtain time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave...