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...stage and screen folk, the Sherman where Ben Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin...
...Dallas, Mrs. Banks Upshaw won a $100 prize for a tomato-can bird house submitted in a national contest, put the bird house in her yard, waited a year for a tenant, never...
...Schlitz made famous, welcomed beer back with special editions of its newspapers. Here again the State had provided no regulatory legislation. Milwaukee licensed 4,207 "taverns"; the thirsty stormed Juneau Avenue breweries at midnight. At the Miller Brewery, beer was passed out free to thirsters who brought milk bottles, tomato cans. Wisconsin Avenue was jammed with celebrants, some of whom stood on the tops of their cars singing "Sweet Adeline." Pabst had its product, screamingly escorted by police sirens, at downtown hotels eight minutes after legalization...
...Breaking his custom of lunching from a tray at his office desk. President Roosevelt went to the White House dining room one noon last week to eat a 7-) cent meal. The menu: stuffed hard-boiled eggs with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, bread, prune pudding, coffee. He cleaned his plate. The luncheon was Mrs. Roosevelt's experiment with White House economy, to be served only to members of the family...
...Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History horticultural exhibition showed a new vegetable, the topepo, cross between a tomato and a pepper, four inches in diameter, light yellow, uncookable, tasting like a mild pepper...