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This sombre note led Bingham to talk about seating problems generally. "We have accomodations for 2,400 spectators in the gymnasium," he said, "but ever since the Cocoanut Grove fire we've been limited to admitting only 1,600 because of the size and number of the exits. This year, only half the stands have been set up for each game...
...months, hotelmen had been quietly tilting for control of Los Angeles' luxurious Ambassador Hotel, whose 500 rooms, famed Cocoanut Grove, swimming pool and golf course have long been run by a bondholders' trust. Conrad Hilton, owner of Chicago's Stevens ("world's largest") and twelve other hotels, thought he had the inside track. Hilton started dickering last year, first offered $22 apiece for a controlling quantity of the 58,200 trust certificates issued after the hotel went bankrupt in 1935, gradually raised this to $44, with no takers...
...devastating blocking back, a short stubby character weighing more than 200 pounds despite his five-foot-seven-inch stature, reputed as an outstanding blocker and backer-up. Sullivan, fullback of the 1942 eleven which crushed Boston College, 55 to 12, in the famous game that preceded the Cocoanut Grove disaster, shares honors at the bucking spot with Veto Kissel, of last year's Crusader eleven...
...treatment brings together what has been learned from such disasters as Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and from wartime experience with men burned aboard ships and planes. It was described in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics by Dr. Robert Elman, husky, 49-year-old surgery professor in Washington University's Medical School, St. Louis...
...join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...