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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...
Next day, at 2:30 p.m., balding House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women...
Flato 's cuff had been extended liberally to Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller ($1,320). Oth er accounts receivable: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ($585); Marlene Dietrich ($50); Gloria Laura Vanderbilt ($1,018); Gloria Swanson ($692); Mrs. Alfred G. Vander bilt ($1,096) ; Doris Duke Cromwell...
William David Shambroom, Edward Thomas Shanks, Daniel Abraham Shephard, Harold Charles Small, Frank Vreeland Snyder, Samuel Alexander Sommers, Jr., Russell Baskin Stannard, Richard Winslow Swanson, Robert Arnold Townsend, Leonard Oscar Weinstein, Richard Foster Woodward, Frank Herbert Wyman...
Stroke, W. Malcolm '45; 7, C. S. Robinson '44; 6, R. W. Swanson '43; 5, E. F. Greene '44; 4, M. M. Miller '43; 3, R. D. Moot, Jr. '44; 2, E. H. Schell, Jr. '44; bow, A. G. Olney '43; cox, J. H. Ward...