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...James A. Linen...
Cordially, James A. Linen...
...lamps which had never been removed-but now gas pressure was low, because many Londoners turned up the gas for heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...last six months listeners had "knocked" 2,500 to 3,000 "hunks of linen" a week to the 1280 Club's M.C., young (28), vacant-faced Fred Robbins. Last week Robbins was sent by the cheers of his "dicty" public into a top job-the M.C. spot on the Columbia Record Shop. With 359 stations, he would be the most widely broadcast disc jockey, but would have to educate his audience gradually into the mysteries of his "spectacular vernacular." With his take from the 1280 Club, he would now be grossing some $40,000 a year...
...deal calls for the Development Co. to spend about $3 million building and furnishing a lavish ten-story, 300-room hotel, all air-conditioned. When it opens (tentative date: mid-1948), Hilton will take over. All he has to put up is enough cash to buy linen, dishes, pay and train the staff, cover operating expenses. In return, he will get one-third of the profits. Hilton will stand any losses, but nobody expects any. Puerto Rico is already short of hotel rooms, hopes soon to be doing a booming tourist business...