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...from bits and pieces of testimony from frightened victims, from facts pieced together by committee investigators, a solid picture emerged: racketeers have cut a slice of Chicago's restaurant unions and intend, unless balked, to expand into a boundless labor empire. Their plan is brutally simple: sell the café proprietor "protection" from legitimate unionization and collect monthly "dues" from him for a fragment of his staff-a fragment that rarely knows it has been organized. The weapons are terror, extortion and violence, wielded in many cases by rod-packing remnants of the late Al Capone...
...least two occasions union enforcers tried terror to silence committee witnesses: Mrs. Beverly Sturdevant, a café manager, was warned: "Get sick before you go to Washington, or you'll be sicker when you get back." Mae Christensen, a hostess employed in the cafe, was similarly threatened. Anthony De Santis, a victimized restaurant owner, testified quaveringly: "I haven't slept for months due to some of the things that have happened in our area...
...Paris to work with Ephrussi. Their first joint experiment was the delicate feat of transplanting an eye from one minuscule fruit-fly larva to another. After many attempts, an eye took hold and lived, and the two young scientists spent a whole day of celebration at a sidewalk caf...
...boffo biz seven nights a week, and even then he may wind up flivving. Reason: the top-liners are slugging the spots for too much coin. The latest of the show bizites to feel the pinch are Manhattan's Lou Walters, whose "six-stage, super-Broadway showcase," Café de Paris, is deep in the red after only a month's operation, and Brooklyn's Ben Maksik, who last week shut down his cavernous Town & Country Club (TIME, April 7) for the summer, at the same time filed a petition in bankruptcy...
...Café de Paris opened with a ballyhooed two-hour revue featuring Stripper Britton and starring Shouter Betty Hutton. Boniface Walters (who ran Manhattan's Latin Quarter for years) paid $22,500 a week just for Singer Hutton. For such a blue chip outlay, he needed two full houses every week night and three on weekends, with every one of the 1,000 seats returning as much as $30. The first week he grossed $70,000 and lost $10,000. Says he: "If I'd paid Hutton a normal salary, I could have made $10,000 instead...