Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiar 649-ft. transmission tower, the tallest structure in New England. Inside, an all-modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal over a radius of 65 miles...
...guides had to lower him 1,000 feet on ropes. Then he had to walk two miles to a hotel. On the way, Alpine enthusiast Smiley bought a picture postcard "so as to remember the place...
...saxophone and brother Lebert with his trumpet had crossed over from London, Ont. to Cleveland, fired by Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since Guy had started making a fortune for Decca and himself by selling close to 50 million copies...
After reciting the Biblical story of the man who "once entertained certain strangers in his house, and . . . did not find out until after they [left] that they were messengers of God . . .", Oursler drew a modern parallel. He told how George C. Boldt, a Philadelphia hotel man, once surrendered his own room to an elderly stranger and his wife, two years later had the kindness repaid when the stranger (William Waldorf Astor) made him manager of Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
Petrillo threw out that solution. Last week he staged a showdown at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza hotel. There, Pianist Victor Borge, a member of both Petrillo's union and A.G.V.A., has been burlesquing opera-singing and making fun of music in general. Petrillo was not amused. He sent Borge a terse telegram: leave the A.G.V.A., or play without an orchestra. Borge meekly complied. Said he: "It is easier for me to get along without the A.G.V.A. than to do without an orchestra...