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...hand were former G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall; J. Willard Marriott, the Mormon millionaire owner of the Hot Shoppe restaurant chain and Marriott Motor Hotels; Clifford Folger, the Washington financier who was national Republican finance chairman for the presidential campaigns of 1956 and 1960; L. William Seidman, a wealthy Michigan accountant with offices around the world, who ran unsuccessfully for state auditor on Romney's ticket in 1962; Detroit Real Estate Millionaire Max Fisher, this year's national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Also present were Romney's attorney, Richard van Dusen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Ready for Romney | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...next day Romney was guest of honor at a reception attended by some 300 leading Washington businessmen and politicians. It was given by Mrs. J. Willard Marriott, Republican national committeewoman for the District of Columbia, a longtime Romney friend and, like Romney, a Mormon. Throughout his Washington visit, Romney steadfastly denied that he has any 1964 presidential ambitions. But both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon* are known to look favorably on him, and it may be increasingly difficult for him to keep saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Guest of Honor | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Then she tries to portray the nymphet Juliet. Now Sarah Bernhardt, Miss Marriott, and Siobhan McKenna have all played the role of Hamlet (the last with a good deal of success, I can personally testify). But then Miss Hayes comes along trying to be Ulysses, of all things--and with Evans sitting not five feet away...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Shakespeare Revisited | 7/23/1962 | See Source »

...Washingtonians, from Cabinet officers to Government clerks, the orange-roofed Hot Shoppes are as well known as the Washington Monument. Last week Hot Shoppe Owner J. Willard Marriott branched out with another sort of monument-one of the world's largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Root Beer to Riches | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Marriott arrived in Washington from little Marriott, Utah (named for his grandfather) thirty years ago with $3,000 capital (half borrowed) and the Washington franchise for a western root beer. With a partner he opened a hole-in-the-wall root-beer stand, the following year had two stands and no partner (he bought him out for $5,000). To make up for the drop in root-beer sales in winter, he installed a steam table and griddle, began selling tamales and enchiladas, changed his stores' name to Hot Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Root Beer to Riches | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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