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Word: interhotel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...unfamiliar ground: the first Jewish settlers who tried to farm the Catskills' stony soil; the hotel owners who hit pay dirt in chopped liver; singers and comedians such as Eddie Fisher, Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar, who got their starts on Borscht Belt stages; the gamblers who fixed interhotel basketball games and corrupted some of the best college players of the early 1950s; and, finally, the real estate developers of the 1980s who subdivided a tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seltzering Holes | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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