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Into the red and green conference room of Greater Miami Beach's Americana Hotel stepped pink and grey President George Meany for the annual midwinter huddle of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council last week-and he forthwith boomed out a judgment that may haunt him for months...
...manufacturer who in 1946 bought the dilapidated Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in Lakewood, N.J., turned it into such a bustling enterprise with the help of Sons Laurence and Robert that the family went on to build up the largest chain of resort hotels (including Miami Beach's Americana, Atlantic City's Traymore) in the U.S.; in Houston...
...carillonneur; RCA Victor Stereo). It is easy to quibble with the style of this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1,453 bells of the Carillon Americana brazen it out with a clarity and resonance sure to pin any true stereo...
Regarding the cover of Khrushchev and Americana, it was a pleasant surprise to see the John Carter Brown gate of Brown University. However, your background sketch on Artist Safran failed to mention any reason why he chose to paint the gate and Sayles Hall in the background. Did he have any reason...
...Theatres (15%), was elected a Loew's director and chairman of its finance committee. Brooklyn-born Larry Tisch, a New York University graduate ('42), and his brother Robert, 33, own the largest chain of U.S. resort hotels (seven with 2,800 rooms, including Miami Beach's Americana and Atlantic City's Traymore), now worth $60 million. They started with a $175,000 investment in Lakewood, NJ.'s Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in 1946. Tisch started buying into Loew's Theatres last April after it was separated from Loew's Inc., the movie...