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Lyons branched out in 1912 with its first Corner House near Piccadilly Circus, biggest restaurant in the world, where 4,500 could eat at once on the nine floors. This mass-market feeding was immensely aided by Chairman Isidore Salmon's penchant for bad puns and good publicity. Every Briton who read a paper became familiar with Sir Isidore's brainchild George, who was always "gone to Lyonch...
...blame: 1) an all-party committee of Parliament would look into profiteering; 2) there would be prosecutions "where necessary" under the Combines Investigation Act and Prices Board regulations. Despite promises to the contrary, many an astute political observer felt sure that the probe would turn into a Roman circus, with Liberal and CCF lions crunching the bones of business. The Financial Post sneered that the government had acted out of "A combination of political fear and old-fashioned peeve." Consumers would enjoy the show...
...Meeting with History." In London crowds trudged through a cold drizzle to Watch Night services at St. Paul's. Piccadilly Circus was crowded and almost as gay as ever. Britons felt in their bones that somehow 1948 would be better than 1947, but nobody promised them anything. The Manchester Guardian advised its readers to "expect a meeting with history some time this year...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, Texas put on an aerial circus that fooled Alabama, 27 to 7. Afterwards, the owners of two pro football teams (Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts) were on hand to bid for Quarterback Bobby Layne, whose passes ruined Alabama...
...Baltimore, one Lawrence Riemer, mild-mannered piano player, was convicted of manslaughter for strangling his wife, a former circus tattooed lady. "She asked me to marry her," he explained. "She was tattooed all over, but I figured I might as well. I was lonely. . . . Then I found out she was like a wild woman...