Word: somborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
Hamburger and Capon. Founder of the Brown Derby was the late Herbert K. Somborn, movie producer, second of Gloria Swanson's four husbands. A coffee-bibber, Somborn wanted 20 cups a day. And he often sighed for his mother's home cooking. A restaurant seemed the only answer. He outlined the idea to his friend, legendary Wit Wilson Mizner. Cracked Mizner: "A restaurant like that would succeed-even if you called it the Brown Derby...
...dapper Robert Howard Cobb, 43, who is often mistaken for Actor William Powell ("I don't think Powell's quite as good an actor as I am"). Bob Cobb has managed the Brown Derby since its opening, is now president and biggest stockholder (cofounders Somborn and Mizner died ten years...