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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...