Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auction off the furniture, rugs, mirrors, fireplaces and dishes, glassware and silver with the Ritz crest. Flashiest buyer: wealthy Texas Publisher Amon Carter, who bought the famed men's bar as a present for his son, and two elevator cages to be used as powder rooms in his Fort Worth home...
...Fort Sheridan, Pvt. Amborski got his shots. Says he: "Those shots lowered my resistance. I was sent off to Fort Leonard Wood not feeling too good." At the Missouri camp he soon began to make regular appearances at sick call. The medics tested his eyes, ordered glasses for him. Amborski complained of low back pain, but they could find nothing wrong with his back. His appetite fell off. He went back to the dispensary complaining of diarrhea. The corpsmen gave him bismuth cocktails. Stanley wrote to his father: "Get me out of here, Dad. I'm going to fall...
Council of War. Into the family car John Amborski loaded his wife, second son John, 18, three daughters and one of young John's suits. They drove 400-odd miles to Fort Leonard Wood, found Stanley weak and ill. After a midnight council of war in a tourist camp, the Amborskis returned to the post next morning, picked a quiet spot behind some bushes for Stanley to change into civvies, drove him out past the guards and back to Chicago...
...Fort Worth Publisher Amon Giles Carter, undisputed king of Texas boosters, checked into Manhattan's old Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the last time before the building is torn down to make way for a 25-story office building. As a farewell gesture, he decided that a party was in order, called for his two favorite waiters, who had served him on his trips to Manhattan for the past 30 years, took them to dinner at the Stork Club, topped off the evening with a nightclub show...
Numerically, it was a small beginning. But the group in Manhattan, (and others being formed in Chicago, Los Angeles and Vancouver) offered new hope to men who had suffered the agonies of withdrawal at Lexington or at the similar P.H.S. hospital at Fort Worth, only to fall into the habit* again. Says Danny, whose downfall began with an earache 25 years ago: "I've been a burden to the Government most of my life. Now I can repay my debt...