Gastronomical Map of Manhattan turn the pages for tempting details
DINING IN NEW YORK CA conscientious and intimate guide to 125 of
the best and most interesting restaurants in and near New York,
with pointed suggestions, necessary cautions, and some uncommon
recipes. C Indicating the price range, whos who, whats what and how
to get there. C Cross - indexed by localities, national origin,
type of entertain- ment, etc. C And also a concise list ofnumerous
additional restaurants. 1930, ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rian James . . .
born in Eagle Pass, Texas, October third, 1899 ... his first
newspaper job was writing a column for a Massachusetts weekly ...
he was fired because he couldnt spell Massachusetts ... as aviator,
advertising writer, soldier, reporter, war correspondent and
feature syndicate salesman he has visited 31 countries ... he
thinks that Paris would be the nicest city in the world if only so
many people didnt speak French there ... he writes by lamp light on
the brightest day and would rather walk a mile than use the tele-
phone ... he never shaves in the morning because he doesnt get up
that early . . . four years ago he made his twenty-sixth parachute
jump because somebody told him that no one had ever made more than
twenty-five safely ... he has never smoked a cigar, eaten spinach
or worn spats ... he never for- gets anumber, or remembers anything
else ... he once won a bronco-busting contest at Madison Square
Garden, and still claims that he spent the next four days in bed
because he had a cold ... he has suffered broken ribs fourteen
times doing stunts for the movies, and thinks there should be a law
against everything that is against anything ... he prefers blondes,
brunettesand red heads, alternately, and thinks that when greater
comedians are made theyll all be named Fred Allen ... his
weaknesses are airplanes, Coca Colas with a dash of lime and head
waiters named George ... he hates making speeches and when he has
to always sends a last-minute telegram to the effect that he has
just broken his leg ... his favorite author is Oscar Wilde and he
would rather read vii poetry than write it ... he never attends a
sad . . . play he gets seasick in anything smaller than the
Leviathan ... he believes in the number 9 and would walk around the
block rather than permit a black cat to cross his path ... he never
appears after six in the evening without a walking stick and
wouldnt be found dead with one before that ... he believes that
slang is the shortest distance between two points and prefers
playing postoffice to bridge ... he likes going places and doing
things and will risk his neck cheerfully if he can get a paragraph
of copy out of it ... he notes most of his columnar material on the
backs of menus and old envelopes, which he invariably loses ... he
believes that soda mint tablets are good for everything but
appendicitis ... he never carries a pencil and will walk out on a
party rather than sit facing a mirror . . . hed rather be gray at
the temples than president . . . and he collects first editions, of
which he has more than 2,000 . . . miniature elephants, of which he
keeps more than thirty on his desk alone, and hotel keys ... his
favorite hates are people who telephone in the morning, facetious
radio announcers, and horses that come in fourth, fifth and sixth .
. . he has never intentionally written anything to hurt anybody and
he would rather haveBernard Shaws sense of humor than Rockefellers
share of Socony ... his pet aversion is water- cress .....
