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Patrons of a people's restaurant, wrote the irate columnist, would hardly order dishes whose names they either could not understand or which called up memories to turn any decent proletarian stomach. "Competent quarters should take to heart this piece of advice-a restaurant filled with workers is of more value than a 'bonne femme' in the company of Prince Esterhazy or Prince Metternich." Furthermore, it simply did not make sense "that a dish of veal should have five different names, each of which is priced higher according to its unintelligibility...
...reception given in his honor by Octavio da Souza Dantas, Miller got talking with portly (240 lbs.) Augusto Frederico Schmidt, poet, businessman and columnist. Between nibbles of crisp shrimp patties, Schmidt waxed eloquent on political matters. Next day, in his column in Rio's influential Correio da Manhā, he developed his thoughts in an open letter to Miller and, indirectly...
...Columnist Johnson, a professional funnyman, has also interviewed mind-readers to get a line on prospective Academy Award winners (it was a wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about...
...Editor Leslie Gould. He hinted that Nelson's name was being used to help sell 800,000 shares of Caribou common stock at $1.25 a share, which was, he thought, "not the kind of stock to be sold to the public." The real powers behind the scene, wrote Columnist Gould, are two Russian-born brothers named Alexander and Boris Pregel, who "are listed as owning 321,000 common . . . costing them $5,350 or an average of 1½? a share. At the $1.25 price to the public, their $5,350 'investment' is worth...
Next year's Nieman Follows will be chosen by two newspaper editors and one Washington columnist in addition to the three permanent members of the selection committee. Columnist Marquis Childs, Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Cleveland Press, and Irving Billiard, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have accepted appointments to serve on the selection committee...