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...always appreciated, being regarded not only as hotels but as a cultural transplant from America. The local "atmosphere" sometimes misfires. Spaniards laughed the peasant-garbed waiters at Madrid's Castellana Hilton right back into tie and tails, and Hilton had to change the name of the Opium Den bar in his Hong Kong hotel after the Chinese took offense (it is now simply The Den). The popular BBC television satire show, That Was the Week That Was, opened fire at Hilton with a mock Bible lesson: "Brethren, in the beginning there was darkness upon the face of the earth...
...this den of doubletalk and doubletake, Playboy Sinatra struggles against his mossback parents (Molly Picon and Lee J. Cobb) to put a long-overdue end to the shocking innocence of his kid brother, Tony Bill. At 21, and out of college, Tony is just a nice Jewish kid who has never tasted a martini or smoked a cigarette orit would seem -kissed a girl. He comes to live with Frank and get made over in the Sinatra image: a wardrobe of silk suits, spread-collar shirts, pointy shoes, and a set of attitudes that includes a taste for doxies...
...Wakeman, in The Hucksters, who began the Madison Avenue genre, but none of Wakeman's imitators approached him for Great Moments. There were three genuine Moments in the book: the first when Victor Norman-Hamlet as hid den persuader-threw away his black knit necktie and bought a sincere $35 hand-painted number on the way to a job interview; the second when Norman, newly hired as an account executive at $35,000 per, amusedly dropped $8 out of his office window; and the third when Norman watched his client. Evan Llewelyn Evans, spit on the boardroom table...
...small-town fellow come to the big city it was bound to happen sooner or later, and finally it did," said the lead editorial in the Wall Street Journal. "On the way to Wall Street, that den of iniquity, our pocket was picked in the subway, that haunt of the huddled masses...
Leading contender for the post of dean is Judson T. Shaplin '42, who has served as acting dean since Dec. 10, 1962, when former Den Francis G. Keppel '38 left to become U.S. Commissioner of Education...