Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John F. Bruckman of 69 Irving St., Waltham; Waltham Senior High. Stanley L. Cohen of 24 Sidlaw Rd., Brighton; Boston Public Latin. Ellsworth D. Comins of 33 Greenbrier St., Springfield; Classical High, Springfield. Francis J. Cook of 46 Belvedere St., Springfield; Classical High, Springfield. John T. Coughlan of 553 North St., Pittsfield; Pittsfield High...
Railroader Robert R. Young had something new to show off. His Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had paid the Government $4,000,000 for the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., famed watering place for pre-Civil War Southerners and resort for U.S. Presidents (13 had slept there). It had spent another $4,200,000 refurbishing...
...windup was a glittering ball in the chandelier-hung ballroom. At its height, the Duke of Windsor, a good amateur hand at the drums, joined Meyer Davis's band and beat the skins (How Are Things in Glocca Morra?) as he did when he visited Greenbrier 29 years...
Drapes by Draper. For the lush background for his party, Railroader Young had depended on Interior Decorator Dorothy Draper, who had spent more than a year getting Greenbrier ready. She had broken through large areas of white stucco walls and moved Greenbrier's lobby from the second floor to sub-ground level. In it she placed $4,000 worth of palms (to be replaced as needed) to give an outdoor effect. Elsewhere, she used some of her typical tricks. To make some of the cavernous rooms more cozy, she set up latticed, movable walls. A typical bedroom...
Robert D. Adams, of 1200 Greenbrier Drive, Fort Worth, Texas, a graduate of the R. L. Paschal High School...