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TIME erred. The father of Original Subscriber Menjou was the owner of a Cleveland chop house on Prospect Street, famed for its beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou...
Candidate Smith, like many another U. S. statesman and politician, enjoys an occasional cocktail and highball, relishes a stein of cool Münchener beer. Candidate Smith is no alcoholic, no inebriate. Neither secretaries nor friends can recall when overindulgence has forced him to shirk his official duties.' Unless all who drink are drinking men, TIME would not classify him as a drinking...
...called to the Prime Ministry Herr Hermann Müller, prominent Socialist, onetime manual laborer, signer of the Versailles Treaty and head of an undistinguished Cabinet in 1920. Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer...
Coincidently, the first important biography of Hearst has appeared.* It depicts Hearst as a onetime Harvard student who "tried manfully to drink beer," as a devoted husband, "a keen student of the Bible," and, through his newspapers, "a world force," a man who "has shortened by a generation certain sorely needed social and political reforms . . . has awakened the public consciousness of the average citizen...
Henry Ford emerged from a 1928 model Ford sedan to browse in the antique shop of Mrs. L. A. Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...