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Died. Rosie Dolly, 77, one of Broadway's glamorous dancing Dolly Sisters who with her identical twin Jenny, was the toast of two continents in the Roaring Twenties; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Beautiful and talented, the daughters of Hungarian immigrants (Roszika and Yancsi Deutch), they danced to packed houses on both sides of the Atlantic. Jenny, after several unhappy marriages, hanged herself in 1941. Rosie married Canadian Millionaire Mortimer Davis Jr., later shed him for wealthy Chicago Department Store Heir Irving Netcher...
...cautiously admiring clubbies. The clubbies like to keep abreast of developments as long as it doesn't involve reading. They keep the Master primed (if priming be needed) with frequently inserted "aouh yes's" and "I know's" of about twelve syllables each. The clubbies like to eat toast for breakfast because it's such fun to pronounce...
...from downtown to affluent suburbs. Last week some New Jersey stores ran out of the concoction entirely. Whether they were moved by the fad or frugality, New Year's revelers decided that Cold Duck was just the tipple with which to see out the inflationary old year and toast in the uncertain...
...Travel Critic Egon Ronay, a Hungarian-born ex-hotelier. In the 1970 edition of his Guide, Ronay calls hotel breakfasts, "with notable exceptions, one of the heavier crosses we bear on our inspections." More specifically, the guide's 16 food tasters and bed testers reported "disgusting coffee, cold toast, tinned juices, brought into one's room with the delicacy of a hangman." The press concurred. "I'm sorry, but we knew that already," wrote Daily Mail Columnist Vincent Mulchrone. "Breakfast, like beer, is one of those subjects the British go on about until they are at their...
...served by "the godsend of a middle-aged woman, almost a nurse, who takes such care you almost want to marry her." In a very few top-drawer London hotels, "reverence is still paid to bacon and eggs -if not to the customer. They set out a piece of toast as if they're mounting it in platinum...