Word: inns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smoke-hazed dining room of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week, the supply of ready money would have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh...
...more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa, Walter?" But feuding Walter Winchell (see TV & RADIO) had quietly retired to his room, pleading ill health. Highest bidder of the evening: Desert Inn Owner Morris Kleinman, who bought California's Ken Venturi for $24,000. Right behind him came Crooner Frankie Laine, who got Three-Time Winner Gene Littler for the fourth time...
Outdoor Amours. When another family, the nouveau riche Jorgensons, turns up in the harbor on a rented yacht and takes rooms at the inn, the Hunters go into a tizzy. Ken Jorgenson is a hearty Midwestern manufacturing tycoon, but years before he was a lowly swimming instructor on Pine Island, cruelly taunted by the rich young summer crowd. Ken's whiny wife Helen is a cellophane-wrapped neurotic, untouched by life. Their 13-year-old daughter Molly is an adolescent sleeping beauty waiting to be kissed into existence. The kiss comes, of course, from Johnny, but before that...
...hierarchy among the clubs at Princeton which is universally acknowledged, though the caste structure obviously implied by it is widely denied to exist. The highest echelon consists of "the big five." Ivy Club (wryly called "The Vine") is at the absolute summit; then follow, in no particular order, Tiger Inn, Colonial ("The Pillars"), Cap and Gown ("The Cap"), and Cottage ("The Cheese")--among whose former members have been both F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Foster Dulles. Graduates of the most famous Eastern prep schools, the scions of stock hallowed by generations of fame and money, and other individuals...
...They are, however, more reliable, on the whole, than the images connected with the respective Harvard houses. Thus, the campus "doers" or activity men are apt to be found in Cap and Gown or Quadrangle, and athletes tend to turn up, according to their inmost natures, either in Tiger Inn, the lair of "the gentlemen jocks," or in Cannon, home of "the sweaty ones." The captain of this year's football team, however, is in Ivy, which always has its pick of the entire class...