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...obliged to spend his days clerking in his father's law firm, he spent his nights charming London's nobs and snobs and captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...
...Hollywood's latest inn-fighting, fading Love Goddess Rita Hayworth, 43, and dour Cinemactor Gary Merrill, 46, chose the celebrity-crowded Au Petit Jean to exchange dialogue that would make longtime California Neighbor Henry Miller blush and that did in fact bring hysterical tears from their dinner companion. Rita's daughter (by the late Aly Khan). Princess Yasmin, 12. Soon bounced from the restaurant, the fractious couple were carted off in separate cars. Next day Rita, who has been capering on two continents with Gary ever since her fifth divorce last September, proclaimed that the Thirty Minutes...
Secret of the motor inn's success is its convenience and the fact that the U.S. citizen hates to be far separated from his car. Once the motorist arrives at the usual hotel, his car is taken from him and deposited in some costly limbo, from which he must bail it out with what seems like an everlasting stream of tips and usually a sizable garage bill...
...motor inn, things are different. The motorist can drive up, sign in, and often keep his car right outside his door. In some multifloored motor inns, the guest drives his car up ramps and leaves it outside his room: in other cases, it is parked directly beneath. From the moment he checks in, the guest has direct access from room to car, never has to clean up the children to run the gamut of a lobby, never has to wait for an attendant to bring the car around from the garage...
Taking a lesson from the motor inn's book, the handful of new hotels built or building in recent years make the care and storage of automobiles a major feature...