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Died. Lucius Boomer, 68, boss of Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; of a heart ailment; in Hamar, Norway, where he was vacationing (see BUSINESS...
That was his formula, though it took Poughkeepsie-born Lucius Messenger Boomer a while to get the hotel to prove it. He was a stenographer, a bookkeeper and a part-time law student until his eyes failed. He got a job as a roustabout, pushing barrels around the basement of the old Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach, and then he decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities...
...room, 46-story, $40 million super-palace on Park Avenue, with five ballrooms, a railway siding for private cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...
...Lucius Boomer's spacious Waldorf-Astoria apartment Molotov compromised on Trieste and conceded the principle of free trade on the Danube. That was intimately related to such apparently unrelated domestic problems as the Russian housing shortage (the world's worst) which confines most Russians to dwelling space of less than 7 by 7 ft. each...
...Dusk. That was the background of the meeting of Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin and France's Couve de Murville amid the yellow chairs and croton plants in the apartment lent to the Ministers by the Waldorf's fastidious board chairman, Lucius M. Boomer...