Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carnegie Hall (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC). Guest: Lauritz Melchior...
...such moneybags as Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium. With the help of Odium, Hilton paid out $7,400,000 for New York's stately old Plaza, which was as deeply encrusted with stately tradition as it was with the grime of years. The Plaza's first guest in 1907 (at $30,000 a year) had been Alfred G. Vanderbilt, and since then the hotel's quiet, Old World atmosphere had made it a favorite of Manhattan's lorgnette & limousine set. One longtime Plaza guest was so frightened at the thought of a breezy Westerner taking...
...succeeded in 1946 by Hilton Hotels Corp.). When the depression hit, and an estimated 80% of all U.S. hotels went bankrupt, he was far overexpanded. He hurried from hotel to hotel, yanking out the room telephones and closing off some of the floors to cut costs. When a guest asked for ink, a bellhop would ceremoniously pour out enough to write one letter...
John Farwell Moors '83 will be the guest of honor at a ceremony marking the formal opening of Mary Buckminister Moors Hall at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the new Radcliffe dormitory...
While games, songs, magicians, and refreshments are a feature of every Brooks House splurge, Christmas means presents, and the committee has a distinctive manner of handling this, too. Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...