17 “If you’re the undertaker, my man”: Ramsay, “Blinker” Hall, 299.
18 “I insistently pictured the tunnel giving way”: Mackworth, This Was My World, 262.
19 “If anyone had asked me”: Ibid., 259.
20 “I do not quite understand”: Ibid., 260.
21 He established a foundation: “Compliments of George Kessler,” American Menu, April 14, 2012, 12.
22 A succession of new owners: For the more recent history of Lauriat’s, see the Boston Globe, Oct. 1, 1972, and May 19 and June 13, 1999.
23 a clear blue sky: Kansas City Star, June 15, 1919. Courtesy of Mike Poirier.
24 “I dropped into a chair”: Katz, Dearest, 121.
25 “If you were saved”: Cunningham, My Godmother, 51.
26 “in such a state of exhaustion”: Katz, Dearest, 122.
27 “You can have no idea”: Ibid., 125.
28 Her companion, Edwin Friend: Hoehling and Hoehling, Last Voyage, 171.
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