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When the four Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their 44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany. Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked. "No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall...
Urbanity Plus. Frank Case was a clerk at the Algonquin when it opened in 1902, as a West 44th Street neighbor of Sherry's and Delmonico's. Soon he was its manager, then its owner. As such, he had no use for the social register or big bank accounts. They made for dull company. He was determined "to get the Arts." He got what he wanted by providing the Arts with good food, reasonable bills which didn't always have to be paid promptly, and with his own unfailing urbanity...
...frame building at Catherine and Cherry Streets in downtown Manhattan when James Monroe was president and the U.S. flag still had only 20 stars. By the time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated...
While Chancellor and Cooper lolled in 70° sunshine, their great news chains were hotly & heavily invading each other's domains. Reuters had signed up its 44th U.S. client. A.P. had picked up 20 new newspapers in Turkey and was expanding in Europe and India, once Reuters' strongholds. Amid the ruins of the 19th-Century cartel that Reuters had ruled, a free-for-all was shaping up. Boyish Christopher Chancellor faced a man-sized...
Amidst the fine fervor and high purposes of the meeting, the 43 delegations could not fail to be aware of a 44th. Russia, apparently quite satisfied with its answer to the problems and not interested in hearing anyone else's, sent no delegation...