Word: chalet
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...began as amateurs and almost by accident. When the death of her husband left Bertha Hinshaw a mon eyless widow 37 years ago, she did the only thing she knew how to do. She put a sign in front of her house and started cooking. Now her 125-seat Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn is one of Central Florida's greatest attractions. Fly-in diners can land on an 1,800-ft. turf airstrip and her famous soups sell for 690 a can in markets all over the world...
...that Niarchos had chartered from BOAC to take them to Zurich (price: roughly $40,000). From there, they boarded his own Lear jet for the last leg of the trip to St. Moritz. When they got there, they headed straight for a hotel instead of Niarchos' own mountainside chalet. Why? Because in the chalet was Eugenie Livanos, his newest exwife, and their four children...
...build $100,000 homes in the development, but Grover and Harry have reserved the right to say how the house will be situated, what trees can be cut, and even what kind of roof will be built. They have also built a number of more modest A frame chalet-type houses which sell for around $25,000. Says Grover Robbins, "Nobody has to come in unless they like it." Apparently many people do like it, for the membership roster already reads like a North Carolina...
...establishments that are alike. It is Treadway Inns Corp., whose 28 hostels include such disparate stopovers as Nantucket's 120-year-old Jared Coffin House, once a whaler's mansion, a modern downtown motel in the Treadway headquarters town of Rochester, N.Y., and an Alpine chalet in Franconia, N.H., known as the Mittersill Inn. Most of Treadway's inns are in New England, but some are scattered as far away as Virginia and Texas; now Treadway is moving into the Midwest, plans to open seven units a year there from...
Shuttling between her Watch Hill retreat, her winter home in Nassau, her chalet in Switzerland, her 15-room Manhattan penthouse, and her studio in Carnegie Hall, she pursues her vision with an all-encompassing passion. Divorced in January from her second husband, Dr. Benjamin Kean, she bought a four-story brick mansion off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and is renovating it into the Harkness House for Ballet Arts. It will include a workshop and dance school, out of which she plans to form a junior Harkness troupe to tour the small towns...