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...assorted hucksters who hover around Mem Hall exits to bargain for signatures, money, and political souls of fatigued registrants will be fewer than the number present at fall Term Registration, but they'll be there...
...operation of a nightclub. The room must be small and, on crowded nights, tables the size of telephone stands must be jammed together like jackstraws. The dance floor must be intimate enough to make people feel they are really rubbing elbows and posteriors with the great. To these rules, Hover adds a few of his own. Recently he has installed over the dance floor a new lighting fixture designed to enhance milady's makeup. As the evening (and milady's Pancake) begins to wear, the parabolic light slowly dims till by 2 a.m. faces can hardly be discerned...
...Hover gets yeoman assistance from the daily gossip columnists. On occasion, they have reported enough celebrities in Giro's to fill a large section of the Hollywood Bowl. Hover encourages these exaggerations by spending $125,000 a year to promote the legend that anyone seen at Giro's must, of necessity, be a member of Hollywood's higher echelons...
Bettering Girls. In his tireless pursuit of jump, and on the theory that his patrons are easily jaded, Hover redecorates Giro's every two years. The cigarette and hatcheck girls, fetchingly attired in black-net hose, ballet skirts and tight bodices, are breathtaking and don't last long. If a girl hasn't "bettered herself" in three months, she is likely to be dropped. Betterment usually means getting some kind of movie job. One former Giro's girl, "Sunny" Ainsworth, married Tommy Manville (his seventh...
Despite its high prices and exalted clientele, the club itself doesn't make Hover as much money as his sidelines: Giro lipsticks, cigarette lighters, ashtrays, glassware. He makes his own ice cubes, carbonates his own water, and runs annual concerts-starring Xavier Cugat-in the Hollywood Bowl. Even juicier dividends come from the off-premises liquor sales and a catering service which runs many of the major studio parties. "I have found," Hover says, "that people will buy anything with the name Giro...