Word: inns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because Dean Griswold's description of the omnipresence of law was taken as a directive by first-year students or because everyone realizes he's now professional school--that it's for the subject of law is everywhere in the dorms, at Harkness Commons, at Lincoln's Inn (a student restaurant-social club), and even at parties...
Died. Wilbur Clark, 56, Las Vegas innkeeper and sometime craps dealer who parlayed tips and gambling earnings into the Green Shack, pioneer Las Vegas gambling house of 1938, and became a full-fledged Nevada nabob in 1950 when he opened his gaudy, $4 million Desert Inn which, increasingly, he ran as a front for a group of sometime Cleveland gamblers; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif...
...Apple Valley Inn is in the Mojave Desert country, so isolated that when first built in 1948 it could not get telephone service; it put carrier pigeons in the comfortably furnished outlying "bunkhouses" so that guests could place orders for room service. Lying in the little Apple Valley with the Mojave River to the west and the San Bernardino foothills to the south, the inn offers solitude, good food, clean air, and some of the most fascinating desert vistas to be found anywhere. Movie stars show up from time to time, but its regular patrons are mostly prominent social, business...
...soon invited to open a similar inn at nearby Amherst, gradually built up a string of New England public houses including Treadway's best known, the Publick House at Sturbridge, Mass., where a colonial village has been reconstructed. He patterned his operation after colonial innkeeping, insisted on calling his managers innkeepers, worried only slightly about money. "I just love to run a nice place," he insists. "If I kept even, that's all I wanted." He had two basic rules: bedrooms should always be built around a good dining room, and executives should all have kitchen training. "Good...
Though L. G. Treadway, now 81, has retired, he still keeps in touch with Treadway's progress over a rickety upright telephone in his office at the Williams Inn. His son Richard, 52, is chairman of Treadway Inns, but his three sons have sold all but 25% of the corporation's 4,000 shares of stock to employees. Treadway's president and chief executive is J. Frank Birdsall Jr., 51, a Cornell hotel school graduate and experienced kitchen man who first worked for Treadway during college vacations. To its charm and cuisine, Treadway has lately added...