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Jackson exhorted the packed ballroom at the Mariott Marquis to look ahead, beyond the convention and beyond even the November election...
Until last week. Then, in Moscow, the London-based auction house Sotheby's staged the first international art auction ever held in the Soviet Union. An eager crowd of 2,000 packed the ballroom of the Sovincenter, a lavish hotel and conference complex usually off limits to Soviet citizens, to gaze on an array of works that in many cases had rarely been exhibited before, much less sold openly. Bidding was restricted to foreigners who could pay with British pounds...
Cool off at the the National Kidney Foundation of Massachusetts' Ice Cream Extravaganza this Sunday at the Cambridge Ballroom in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. From 1 to 4 p.m. you can make a $10 donation for kidney research and sample as many as 10 flavors from gourmet ice cream vendors from around the nation. An additional $5 donation gets you 10 more servings. Call 326-7225 or 1-800-542-4001 for more info...
...best bordello in the Southeast. It was also home to the Cherokee Club, a famous hangout for cigar magnates and their friends, which over the years played host to such renowned lovers of the leaf as Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland and Winston Churchill. The Kahanas have restored the magnificent ballroom on the second floor and are converting the "gentlemen's hotel" portion into office space...
...hotel ballroom near Chicago's O'Hare Airport is crammed with rows of banquet tables covered with paper chessboards. In silent confrontation, 700 miniature armies face one another across half as many checkered playing fields. The National Open, a major annual chess tournament, is about to begin. A short, plump man dressed completely in black calls the contestants to order. "If you lose a game," he wryly suggests, "congratulate your opponent. Do not disturb the tournament by exploding, screaming or weeping loudly." On hearing this, Hans Berliner breaks into a grin. A former world chess-by-mail champion, Berliner will...