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...told the pattern of his suit, the color of his tie. When the afternoon session was over Mr. Morgan would return to the Carlton Hotel, opposite the White House, where he and his friends were paying $2,000 per day for five floors. &3134; There he would dress, dine quietly, go early to bed. He made no off-stage appearances about Washington in the evening. In the committee room Senators found him an easy, pleasant gentleman who could give them cigars without mak-ing them feel under obligation to him. His partners' testimony he followed as closely...
...hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient choir stalls; the bed of the great Richelieu for guests; $8,000 vases; gold dinner plates and paper napkins; a ping-pong table of medieval wood; a lavish theatre, where each night...
...presidency of a tax-supported university is always sensitive to political change. So found Dr. Henry Suzzallo when he was president of the University of Washington. Politically adroit, able at money-raising, careful to dine with the right people, he nonetheless erred by snubbing a Washington lumberman named Roland H. Hartley. In 1926 Dr. Suzzallo lost his job; Hartley had become Governor and got even. Under Dr. Suzzallo the University had grown, but grown expensive. Under Governor Hartley and the University's next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME...
...England. Day-time tailor, night-time poacher, spare-time writer, in 1931 after nine years of hawking the manuscript Denwood saw his novel Red Ike chosen book-of-the-month by the English Book Society, sell 30,000 copies within two months. A London literary group invited him to dine. Wrote he: "When my novel was being kicked about from publisher to publisher, I desperately needed money for the first time in my life,-money for the skilled medical attention that would have arrested my malady [arteriosclerosis]. Now it is too late. . . . Success is ashes in the mouth...
...Gore Hall, one of the best planned of the buildings, are the Junior Common Room and the Dining Room. The Junior Common Room is comfortably furnished, and well-supplied with current magazines and newspapers. Because of its size, it is well-suited for the tea dances that are held after the major football games in the fall, and for a formal dinner held before the Winter Dance. The Dining Room is large enough to seat the entire House. There are no special tables for tutors, thus allowing undergraduates and tutors to dine together as they wish. It is in this...