Word: drakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laxalt was not glowing; as a matter of fact, he sounded pretty apprehensive. For, as usual, the convention promises plenty of headaches. Until the 1,200-room San Francisco Hilton was completed this year, only two major hotels had risen in San Francisco since the Sir Francis Drake went up in 1928. Moreover, many of the facilities are inadequate. The famed Mark Hopkins, for instance, has only three elevators to service its 23 floors; at the 1956 Republican Convention, patrons had to wait for as long as 1 ½ hours to catch a ride. There are still only three elevators...
...other things, he has sold off a valuable block-square plot in New York's financial district, part of his Southwest Washington redevelopment project, and a San Francisco site where Webb & Knapp intended to construct apartments. Last week he dealt off his right to buy Manhattan's Drake Hotel, and a British buyer was reportedly dickering for Zeckendorfs Chatham. Considering that his revenues from the Astor, Manhattan and Taft are being passed out to creditors, the only New York hotel that Zeckendorf appears to have free and clear is the Gotham...
...accused of nonsupport. Hume Cronyn's Polonius is devilishly fine, a battered human filing cabinet of platitudes who has achieved diplomatic immunity to everything but the sound of his own voice. And George Rose's First Gravedigger is a roguish, low-comic word prankster. But Alfred Drake's King Claudius is too suavely ingratiating to have killed a brother and seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than in the "rank sweat...
...shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...
...newswoman Sadie Burke, she nipped at the heels of Broderick Crawford in Hollywood's All the King's Men, winning an Oscar as the best supporting actress of 1949. She had been a radio soap-opera star (Big Sister, This Is Nora Drake). But Hollywood instantly claimed her as its new resident shrike, and she has lived out there over the past dozen years, making pictures like Johnny Guitar, Giant, A Farewell to Arms and Suddenly Last Summer. "Every day," she says, remembering Summer, "the makeup department would spend an hour making Elizabeth Taylor look more dazzling...