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...building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices in either wing, and shelter a formal garden court (over an underground garage). Londoners generally were enthusiastic. Wrote the architectural correspondent of London's Times: "A welcome acquisition to the rapidly changing face of Mayfair...
Sherwood's carelessness in some matters seemed never to desert him. I remember being in London a few years after he soared into the upper reaches of the theeatre, He was also there on business. I was stopping at the Mayfair and called him at his hotel and asked him if he could drop around for a nostalgic chat. He said: 'be right over, Sam.' As he knew the logical place to find me, I went down to the bar and he soon burst in and went into the usual back-slapping and greetings. We finally eased ourselves over...
Admen's Heartburn. This week, amid the scaffolding of half-finished office buildings, in ancient music halls hastily made into studios and in smart Mayfair suites, feverish platoons of producers, directors, scriptwriters, camera crews, actors and admen are marshaling their forces for TV-day-Sept. 22. Commercial television, British-style, will not start out as a replica of the American brand. By government ruling, only six minutes of sales talk will be allowed each hour, and the plugs must be concentrated at the beginning and end of the hour, or during "natural breaks" in the program. No sponsor...
...prejudice. Until 15 years ago, there were very few colored men to be prejudiced against, and they were apt to be either wealthy or titled, or both. There were colored men all through the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and Negro presidents of the Oxford Union; they were accepted in Mayfair's swankest hotels and clubs. During the war, U.S. Negro soldiers were welcomed with unequaled kindness, even to the extent of fathering some 750 babies...
Madman & Comer. Peter enjoyed the role of eccentric young man-about-Mayfair. He entertained lavishly, kept tables permanently reserved at the West End's swankest nightclubs. When one of his companies tottered, Peter shifted money dexterously from another, started a new one, or found new money from his faithful backers. Nobody at first seemed to notice that none of his companies made money...