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...thought of presidential primaries unsettles her. "Never again," she says. "I've had enough. I remember sitting alone in some Ramada Inn one night in 1972 waiting for Hubert. It was my birthday. He couldn't make it, never got there, and I just started to cry." Of course, if Humphrey is nominated, she will campaign with him as she has for 33 years. But she mostly wishes it would go away. "I go back and forth. He'd make a good President. He's such a decent man. Honestly, we don't know...
...married to two very tall and stuffy people, Georgina Kettle (Spring Fairbank) and Percy Darling (Nicholas Wyman). Precipitately, the foursome is separated as the two short people sail on a Hudson River excursion liner, and the tall people miss the boat. The couples reunite at the upriver Honeymoon Inn, where the explanations get hot, long and sticky, tempers get short, and the fun gets frantic. Among the funsters is a voice teacher (Travis Hudson) who resembles Margaret Dumont of Marx Bros, film renown...
...SEPTEMBER 1776, the Continental Congress sent John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to Staten Island to negotiate with Lord Howe. On their journey to Philadelphia the two stopped for the night in Brunswick, where at a crowded inn they were forced to share not only a small room but the same bed. Trouble started immediately, as Adams--a self-proclaimed invalid--wanted the window shut and Franklin, claiming it would be healthier, insisted it stay open. Franklin won out, and the two Americans faced the cold together in bed. But years later, in his Autobiography, Adams was to have the final...
...memo of March 28, 1968, suggested that the agency use "friendly media contacts" to put out the word that King was a "hypocrite" for coming to Memphis to lead a garbage strike and urge blacks to boycott white businesses while he himself was staying at the white-owned Holiday Inn. Two local news stories subsequently mentioned the fact. King then switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel. It was there he was shot on April 4, though the committee in no way suggests that the FBI was setting him up. That memo about the Holiday Inn contained the notation...
Celebration. A musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, authors of "The Fantasticks." Performed by the Huby's Pub Theater in an intimate cabaret-type setting, at the Ramada Inn, 1234 Soldier's Field Road, though December 2. Performances Saturday and Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets...