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...Right after the war and up until the mid '50s, there was always a tremendous demand for hotel space," explains Bert Sommers, general manager of Chicago's forty-year-old Sherman House. "Hotel managers got away with murder. They didn't put their dough back into their hotels; service and facilities went to hell." As the traveling public developed a preference for the convenience and modernity of motels, hotel occupancy rates shriveled from a nationwide average of 93% in 1946 to 62% last year. As operating costs rise for hotels, more and more are filling out their...
...paid $250,000 to plug the movie, including blurbs on 40 million peanut sacks and millions of six-packs of cola. The Ideal Toy Corp. has pledged $3,000,000 in promotion to have its products shown in a forthcoming Lewis film. Debbie Reynolds' dog will soon go dough-eyed over Red Heart Dog Food in My Six Loves. In The Manchurian Candidate, the camera lingers long on the marquee of Jilly's Restaurant, as if it were the only one in New York. The owner is a pal of Star Frank Sinatra, and the plug was merely...
...move walls. Art has to be decorative. That leaves Picasso out. And besides, Picasso has all the loot. He should disperse his money to struggling young artists. Give his all for art. Museums are dead. And they are closed most of the time. They waste their "dough" on restorations. Why should anything be restored? The artist is helpless - "a Gothic man in the Atomic Age." The art academy is an evil institution. Boston is a terrible place, full of academic critics...
...Santa Monica court to divvy up the spoils of their marriage. Pamela demanded an allowance of $14,165 a month alimony and child support for the couple's precocious daughter Portland, 13, and son Alexander, 6; Mason agreed to shell out a temporary $7.000. Even with all that dough at stake, it was stiff upper lips all round. As the hearing was going on. Pamela was charmingly interviewing James on a pretaped TV show. "One should be able to talk to someone to whom one has been married for 22 years," sniffed Pamela. Added James: "We're just...
...never been much for walking up to people and saying 'Hey, I'm Pete Runnells,' " he says. "It's probably embarrassment. Maybe if I were more pushy I'd have made more dough." Never Mind. This season, as usual, Runnells' busy bat is doing all the pushing. But Pete has still mistaked only nine home runs in 1962. "It used to be quite a thing to lead the league in hitting," he says. "But now, from the standpoint of the fans, that don't sit so high. I just...