Word: inns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
Only one building had not been blown apart-the small inn. In its basement were big casks of wine and rows of bottles. There each night went one U.S. outpost patrol. Thither also (at a different hour) went one German patrol. The patrols never met. They spied on, but never surprised each other. It was too good a thing to be ruined...
Last week the unofficial armistice was ended, the playhouse wrecked. Major Asa Gardiner, suspicious because his G.I.s had" not griped over night patrol duty, sent a more trusted, less thirsty patrol under secret orders to the inn. Its men opened the casks, smashed the bottles, let the good wine run out on the earthen floor...
...conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
Died. Benjamin Crawford ("Ben") Riley, 73, famed restaurateur; of suffocation, in a fire at his Yonkers, N.Y. Arrowhead Inn. Riley opened his first Arrowhead Inn in 1897 at Saratoga (where his innkeeping great-great-grandfather had been given a grant by George III), reportedly introduced frogs' legs to the U.S., numbered among his friends "Diamond Jim" Brady...