Duncan Hines (45 page)

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It was located in Nashville on 8th Avenue South.

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Williams, 31 March 1995.

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Moore, 31 August 1994.

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Interview with Sara Jane Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Spiller, 10 May 1994; Moore, 31 August 1994.

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Chicago Daily News
, 14 April 1940.

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Nashville Banner
, 15 May 1940. At the time of this review,
Adventures in Good Eating
was in its seventh edition and
Lodging for a Night
was in its third.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

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Frank J. Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,”
Scribner's Commentator
10/6 (June 1941): 15. In 1940 the only notable lodging in Bowling Green was the Helm Hotel.

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Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

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One of the newest members of Hines's household was a large Doberman named Bruno. The dog viciously snarled at every stranger he met at the door until Hines told him to stop. No one liked Bruno, except Hines. The dog's behavior terrified the members of Hines's immediate family. Bruno was, by all accounts, afraid of nothing; the dog possessed a natural assurance that the world should
and would
obey his every command. The world was his to do with as he pleased. One day Bruno gave this assumption the ultimate test. According to family members, the dog wandered onto the nearby railroad track, stepped before an approaching locomotive, ordered the gargantuan, onrushing machinery to stop—and was shocked when it did not. As a result of this miscalculation, Bruno was evenly spread across the train track for the next quarter-mile. Interview with Duncan Welch, 7 March 1995.

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Later Davis became both a Kentucky state legislator and an undergraduate dean of two colleges.

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Interview with Paul Ford Davis, 9 April 1993.

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By the time the guidebooks ceased publication in 1962, the total number of restaurants and lodgings had increased to approximately 9,000 listings.

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Davis, 9 April 1993.

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A country ham generally weighs between 15-20 lbs. and Hines made $15-$20 each time he sold one.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Davis, 9 April 1993; Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.

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Davis, 9 April 1993.

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Duncan Hines to A.C. Roberts, 23 December 1946.

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Davis, 9 April 1993.

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Wright, 25 May 1994.

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The dinners were usually held at Chicago's Sheraton Hotel at 505 North Michigan Avenue; the event was usually held on a Tuesday in either March or May, but at the first dinner in 1941 it was held in October.

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Duncan Hines speech at Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago IL, 7 October 1941, 1-8.

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Duncan Hines, speech for Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

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Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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In 1948 Hines published
Duncan Hines' Vacation Guide;
pine green was the color he assigned to both book and rental signs.

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Ibid.; Duncan Hines speech before Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

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Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 16 April 1941.

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Frank J. Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,”
Scribner's Commentator
, vol. 10, no 6 (June 1941), p. 13.

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Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,” 16.

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Ibid., 17.

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Ibid., 17-18.

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Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 16 April 1941.

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MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80. That comment was made in 1938. Some people have argued that, despite the passage of over six decades, nothing has changed.

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David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,”
Smithsonian
15 (November 1984): 92.

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Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

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Hines,
Adventures in Good Eating
, 296.

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Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

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Undated Philadelphia newspaper clipping.

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MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 84.

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Park City Daily News, 1
December 1945.

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MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 84.

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Ibid., 84.

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Ibid., 82.

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Duncan Hines speech at Regional Meeting of Listed Places, June 1942.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Anna Rothe, ed.,
Current Biography 1946
(New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1946) 259.

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Duncan Hines speech for Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

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Duncan Hines testimony given before the Ohio State Health Commissioner' Conference, Columbus OH, 24 September 1942.

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Duncan Hines Rotary Club speech, Cave City KY, 18 August 1943.

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Park City Daily News
, 29 September 1943.

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Duncan Hines to members of Duncan Hines Family, 15 February 1943.

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Interview with Sara Jane Meeks, 7 June 1994.

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Press release, “History of the School of Hotel Administration,” Cornell University, 3.

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In a letter to Robert V. Menifee, dated 16 November 1949, Hines insisted that he never profited from his company beyond expenses. He wrote that he gave “the entire capital stock of [Adventures in Good Eating, Inc.]…to the Duncan Hines Foundation, which is an irrevocable trust…. The foundation receives all the dividends. I personally do not participate.”

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“As Duncan Hines Sees It,”
Table Topics
7/4 (July 1944): 1-2.

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Duncan Hines speech at Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, October 1945.

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Marion Edwards, “They Live to Eat,”
Better Homes and Gardens
23/3 (March 1945): 31. It was at this time that Hines also began including in his guidebooks eating and lodging accommodations in the American territories of Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Mexico and Canada.

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Park City Daily News
, 11 December 1945.

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Edwards, “They Live to Eat,” 30.

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Ibid., 30-31.

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Ibid., 31.

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Ibid., 70.

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Hines, 30 August 1993.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Park City Daily News, 6
December 1945.

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Interview with Edward Beebe, 7 March 1995.

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Death certificate of Emelie Tolman Hines, 9 November 1986. She died at the Manor Care retirement home in Boynton Beach, Florida. She was buried in Lakeworth, Florida.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Ibid., 10 May 1994.

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Ibid., 16 August 1993.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Park City Daily News
, 5 October 1944.

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Interview with Robert Wright, 23 May 1995. While published accounts claim her mother died in 1905, Wright believes the mother of his half-sister, Clara, died in 1907.

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Spiller, 10 May 1994; Wright, 25 May 1994.

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Her father was Cumberland College's first academic dean.

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Telephone interview with Charles Shackelford, Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, 23 May 1995.

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Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 9 August 1983.

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The Talisman
, Western Kentucky Normal School, 1930, 21; 1931, 23; 1932, 17.

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Courier-Journal
, 9 August 1983.

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Park City Daily News
, 5 October 1944. Clarence Nahm was buried in a family plot in Louisville's Adath Israel cemetery.

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Warren County
,
Kentucky Marriages (1918-1965), Groom's List
,
A-J 1
(Bowling Green KY): 1992.

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Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Ibid., 16 August 1993.

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Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Clementine Paddleford, “60,000, Miles of Eating,”
This Week Magazine
(12 January 1947): 12.

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Phyllis Larsh, “Duncan Hines,”
Life
21/2 (8 July 1946): 17.

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Courier-Journaly 9
August 1983.

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Wright, 25 May 1994.

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Duncan Hines,
Adventures in Good Eating
, (Bowling Green KY: Adventures in Good Eating, Inc., 1946) xvi-xix. In this latest edition he also listed 173 dinner detectives.

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Duncan Hines to J. A. Frohock, 11 December 1942.

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Duncan Hines speech, 29 March 1946, 3.

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Larsh, “Duncan Hines,”
Life
, 16-17.

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Ibid. Mrs. McKay told
Life
she knew better than to offer Hines a free meal or to serve him large portions; nor did he want special treatment. He preferred to be served like any other.

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Ibid., 16.

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Ibid., 17.

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Spiller, 16 August 1993.

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Park City Daily Newsy 29
September 1946.

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Clementine Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 10-11.

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This was an exaggeration, but if stretching the truth led to cleaner restaurants, so much the better.

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Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

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Duncan Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,”
Saturday Evening Post
(26 April 1947): 99.

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Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 10-11.

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Herald-Tribune
(New York), 12 May 1947.

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Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,” 18.

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Ibid., 18-19.

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Ibid., 19.

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Ibid., 97.

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Duncan Hines speech, December 1947, 6.

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Ibid., 100.

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Frank J. Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,”
Scribner's Commentator
10/6 (June 1941): 16.

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To better appreciate the changes that swept through the emerging motel industry between 1940 and 1960, consult Warren James Belasco,
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
(Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1979).

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Duncan Hines,
Lodging for a Night
23
^rd
ed. (Bowling Green KY: Adventures in Good Eating, Inc., 1947) ix.

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Belasco,
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel 1910-1945
, 170.

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Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Duncan Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,”
Saturday Evening Post
(26 April 1947): 100.

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Ibid., 102.

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Ibid.; Spiller, 10 May 1994.

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Hines,
Adventures in Good Eating
17
^th
ed., 111.

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Ibid., 295.

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Ibid., 107.

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Ibid., 224.

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Ibid., 254.

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Ibid., 70.

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Park City Daily News
, 4 September 1947.

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Carol Lynn Gilmer, “Duncan Hines: Adventurer in Good Eating,”
Coronet
23/1 (November 1947): 100-101.

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Horace Sutton, “The Wayfarer's Guardian Angel,”
Saturday Review of Literature
31/27 (November 1948): 38.

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Gilmer, “Adventurer in Good Eating,” 104.

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Ibid., 102-104.

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Ibid., 104.