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...Hilton, used the card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...
...ordered eight custom-tailored silk shirts, four pairs of slacks, two sports jackets, an evening outfit of tuxedo, patent leather shoes, soft black hat and walking stick. To hold his finery, he charged two pieces of luggage, flew to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel and took a $21-a-day room. There, the first suspicious glance was cast at his credit card. The hotel asked for it "to check" did not give it back...
...Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel there were leis, typewriters, notebooks, cartons of cigarettes and monogrammed matches in each reporter's $2;-a-day room. Everyone also got an hour's interview with Adventure's official author, James (South Pacific) Michener, and a chance to learn that all Michener sold the network were outlines and a few short stories from which other writers would work out segments of Adventure...
Program of Recovery. In New York City, Robert McKinney was arrested when he was caught running a $50-a-day bookmaking business from his sickbed in Triboro Hospital...
...Legion. Like T.R., he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy-but where T.R. had used the job at century's turn to build up the fleet, Ted, in normalcy 1921-24, had to preside over disarmament negotiations. And when, in 1924, Ted put on a 15-speech -a-day campaign with the same energy his father had shown as G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, he was forced out of T.R.'s footsteps decisively. Reason: his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, held the sidewalks of New York City solid to beat Ted's upstate lead...