Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five-Room Start. When Connie Hilton was 16, he was managing a five-room inn for traveling salesmen over his father's general store in San Antonio, Socorio County, N. Mex. (pop. 760). The rent money put him through college. At 21, Hilton was elected to New Mexico's House of Representatives. He enlisted with the break of World War I, became an Army lieutenant, and fought in France...
...mauve Noel Coward also sang till his pipes cracked, but he found ample time to comment on life in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Bits of Middle East Diary have the peculiar flavor of "My Day" ("Today I drove into Spain . . . and lunched out-of-doors at a little inn called Miraflores...
...taproom of Ye Old Queen Anne's Castle Inn, one of several "oldest hostelries" in the county, Landlord Alfred Sykes drew pint after pint for inquisitive reporters from London, told them of awesome doings. "Last night the church clock turned two hours slow, which never happened before. . . . Then there was old Chipping's rabbits. One of them-ain't this witchcraft?-he found setting on eggs in his chicken coop. . . . And Mrs. Warren's books. There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine. All her books changed jackets...
...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...
Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels-at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.-now used as redistribution centers for soldiers returning from battle. Last week the Army got started on two more centers. For Negro troops, it took over the Hotel Pershing on the border of Chicago's Negro district, got ready to move into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem...