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³⁵⁰It was located in Nashville on 8th Avenue South.

³⁵¹Williams, 31 March 1995.

³⁵²Moore, 31 August 1994.

³⁵³Interview with Sara Jane Meeks, 7 June 1994.

³⁵⁴Spiller, 10 May 1994; Moore, 31 August 1994.

³⁵⁵Chicago Daily News
, 14 April 1940.

³⁵⁶Nashville 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.

³⁵⁷Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

³⁵⁸Frank 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.

³⁵⁹Meeks, 7 June 1994.

³⁶⁰Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

³⁶¹One 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 stopâand 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.

³⁶²Later Davis became both a Kentucky state legislator and an undergraduate dean of two colleges.

³⁶³Interview with Paul Ford Davis, 9 April 1993.

³⁶⁴By the time the guidebooks ceased publication in 1962, the total number of restaurants and lodgings had increased to approximately 9,000 listings.

³⁶⁵Davis, 9 April 1993.

³⁶⁶A country ham generally weighs between 15-20 lbs. and Hines made $15-$20 each time he sold one.

³⁶⁷Spiller, 16 August 1993.

³⁶⁸Davis, 9 April 1993; Spiller, 10 May 1994.

³⁶⁹Interview with Robert Wright, 25 May 1994.

³⁷⁰Davis, 9 April 1993.

³⁷¹Duncan Hines to A.C. Roberts, 23 December 1946.

³⁷²Davis, 9 April 1993.

³⁷³Wright, 25 May 1994.

³⁷⁴The 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.

³⁷⁵Duncan Hines speech at Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago IL, 7 October 1941, 1-8.

³⁷⁶Duncan Hines, speech for Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

³⁷⁷Meeks, 7 June 1994.

³⁷⁸In 1948 Hines published
Duncan Hines' Vacation Guide;
pine green was the color he assigned to both book and rental signs.

³⁷⁹Ibid.; Duncan Hines speech before Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

³⁸⁰Meeks, 7 June 1994.

³⁸¹Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 16 April 1941.

³⁸²Frank J. Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,”
Scribner's Commentator
, vol. 10, no 6 (June 1941), p. 13.

³⁸³Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,” 16.

³⁸⁴Ibid., 17.

³⁸⁵Ibid., 17-18.

³⁸⁶Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 16 April 1941.

³⁸⁷MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 80.

³⁸⁸Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.

³⁸⁹MacKaye, “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.

³⁹⁰David M. Schwartz, “Duncan Hines: He Made Gastronomes Out of Motorists,”
Smithsonian
15 (November 1984): 92.

³⁹¹Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

³⁹²Hines,
Adventures in Good Eating
, 296.

³⁹³Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

³⁹⁴Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993 and 10 May 1994.

³⁹⁵Undated Philadelphia newspaper clipping.

³⁹⁶MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 84.

³⁹⁷Park City Daily News, 1
December 1945.

³⁹⁸MacKaye, “Where Shall We Stop for Dinner?,” 84.

³⁹⁹Ibid., 84.

⁴⁰⁰Ibid., 82.

⁴⁰¹Duncan Hines speech at Regional Meeting of Listed Places, June 1942.

⁴⁰²Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994.

⁴⁰³Anna Rothe, ed.,
Current Biography 1946
(New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1946) 259.

⁴⁰⁴Duncan Hines speech for Regional Meetings of Listed Places, June 1942.

⁴⁰⁵Duncan Hines testimony given before the Ohio State Health Commissioner' Conference, Columbus OH, 24 September 1942.

⁴⁰⁶Duncan Hines Rotary Club speech, Cave City KY, 18 August 1943.

⁴⁰⁷Park City Daily News
, 29 September 1943.

⁴⁰⁸Duncan Hines to members of Duncan Hines Family, 15 February 1943.

⁴⁰⁹Interview with Sara Jane Meeks, 7 June 1994.

⁴¹⁰Press release, “History of the School of Hotel Administration,” Cornell University, 3.

⁴¹¹In 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.]â¦to the Duncan Hines Foundation, which is an irrevocable trustâ¦. The foundation receives all the dividends. I personally do not participate.”

⁴¹²“As Duncan Hines Sees It,”
Table Topics
7/4 (July 1944): 1-2.

⁴¹³Duncan Hines speech at Duncan Hines Family Dinner, Chicago, Illinois, October 1945.

⁴¹⁴Marion 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.

⁴¹⁵Park City Daily News
, 11 December 1945.

⁴¹⁶Edwards, “They Live to Eat,” 30.

⁴¹⁷Ibid., 30-31.

⁴¹⁸Ibid., 31.

⁴¹⁹Ibid., 70.

⁴²⁰Hines, 30 August 1993.

⁴²¹Spiller, 16 August 1993.

⁴²²Park City Daily News, 6
December 1945.

⁴²³Interview with Edward Beebe, 7 March 1995.

⁴²⁴Death 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.

⁴²⁵Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 16 August 1993.

⁴²⁶Ibid., 10 May 1994.

⁴²⁷Ibid., 16 August 1993.

⁴²⁸Spiller, 16 August 1993.

⁴²⁹Park City Daily News
, 5 October 1944.

⁴³⁰Interview 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.

⁴³¹Spiller, 10 May 1994; Wright, 25 May 1994.

⁴³²Her father was Cumberland College's first academic dean.

⁴³³Telephone interview with Charles Shackelford, Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, 23 May 1995.

⁴³⁴Courier-Journal
(Louisville KY), 9 August 1983.

⁴³⁵The Talisman
, Western Kentucky Normal School, 1930, 21; 1931, 23; 1932, 17.

⁴³⁶Courier-Journal
, 9 August 1983.

⁴³⁷Park City Daily News
, 5 October 1944. Clarence Nahm was buried in a family plot in Louisville's Adath Israel cemetery.

⁴³⁸Warren County
,
Kentucky Marriages (1918-1965), Groom's List
,
A-J 1
(Bowling Green KY): 1992.

⁴³⁹Spiller, 10 May 1994.

⁴⁴⁰Ibid., 16 August 1993.

⁴⁴¹Park City Daily News
, 16 March 1959.

⁴⁴²Spiller, 16 August 1993.

⁴⁴³Clementine Paddleford, “60,000, Miles of Eating,”
This Week Magazine
(12 January 1947): 12.

⁴⁴⁴Phyllis Larsh, “Duncan Hines,”
Life
21/2 (8 July 1946): 17.

⁴⁴⁵Courier-Journaly 9
August 1983.

⁴⁴⁶Wright, 25 May 1994.

⁴⁴⁷Duncan 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.

⁴⁴⁸Duncan Hines to J. A. Frohock, 11 December 1942.

⁴⁴⁹Duncan Hines speech, 29 March 1946, 3.

⁴⁵⁰Larsh, “Duncan Hines,”
Life
, 16-17.

⁴⁵¹Ibid. 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.

⁴⁵²Ibid., 16.

⁴⁵³Ibid., 17.

⁴⁵⁴Spiller, 16 August 1993.

⁴⁵⁵Park City Daily Newsy 29
September 1946.

⁴⁵⁶Clementine Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 10-11.

⁴⁵⁷This was an exaggeration, but if stretching the truth led to cleaner restaurants, so much the better.

⁴⁵⁸Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 12.

⁴⁵⁹Duncan Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,”
Saturday Evening Post
(26 April 1947): 99.

⁴⁶⁰Paddleford, “60,000 Miles of Eating,” 10-11.

⁴⁶¹Herald-Tribune
(New York), 12 May 1947.

⁴⁶²Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,” 18.

⁴⁶³Ibid., 18-19.

⁴⁶⁴Ibid., 19.

⁴⁶⁵Ibid., 97.

⁴⁶⁶Duncan Hines speech, December 1947, 6.

⁴⁶⁷Ibid., 100.

⁴⁶⁸Frank J. Taylor, “America's Gastronomic Guide,”
Scribner's Commentator
10/6 (June 1941): 16.

⁴⁶⁹To 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).

⁴⁷⁰Duncan Hines,
Lodging for a Night
23
^rded. (Bowling Green KY: Adventures in Good Eating, Inc., 1947) ix.

⁴⁷¹Belasco,
Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel 1910-1945
, 170.

⁴⁷²Interview with Cora Jane Spiller, 10 May 1994.

⁴⁷³Duncan Hines, “How to Find a Decent Meal,”
Saturday Evening Post
(26 April 1947): 100.

⁴⁷⁴Ibid., 102.

⁴⁷⁵Ibid.; Spiller, 10 May 1994.

⁴⁷⁶Hines,
Adventures in Good Eating
17
^thed., 111.

⁴⁷⁷Ibid., 295.

⁴⁷⁸Ibid., 107.

⁴⁷⁹Ibid., 224.

⁴⁸⁰Ibid., 254.

⁴⁸¹Ibid., 70.