Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mmerung": the house was half empty night after night, much of the gold had drained out of the golden horseshoe, and management was not sure from one month to the next whether the curtain would rise again. What saved the Met more than anything else was Mrs. August Belmont's idea for replacing the top hats and tiaras with an auxiliary known as the Metropolitan Opera Guild. In the 25 years since then the guild has grown into the nation's biggest, most dedicated band of opera supporters...
...Belmont, Calif...
They quickly bought an Atlantic City hotel for $4,350,000 (they later sold it for $15 million), leased another in Atlantic City and two more (the McAlpin and Belmont Plaza) in Manhattan. By refurbishing each, cutting costs, adding attractive facilities and raising room rates, they made all prosper. In 1956 they decided to build their first hotel. The result was the $17 million Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla.-which was so flamboyantly luxurious, even by the standards of nearby Miami Beach, that it easily won the title of Miami's "hotel of the year...
...John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral of Jack Kennedy...
...champion six times in three-cushion, twice in balkline competition between 1927 and 1946, who trained for a match like a boxer, doing roadwork around Central Park and giving up smoking, once remarked, "The killer instinct is part of a billiards player"; of a heart attack; in Belmont, Calif...