Word: mcalpin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. John A. Roosevelt, 49, vice president of Wall Street's Bache & Co. and youngest of F.D.R.'s five children; and Irene Boyd McAlpin, 34, Manhattan socialite; both for the second time; in Manhattan, 7 days after he had been divorced in Mexico by Anne Clark Roosevelt, 49, his wife of 27 years...
They quickly bought an Atlantic City hotel for $4,350,000 (they later sold it for $15 million), leased another in Atlantic City and two more (the McAlpin and Belmont Plaza) in Manhattan. By refurbishing each, cutting costs, adding attractive facilities and raising room rates, they made all prosper. In 1956 they decided to build their first hotel. The result was the $17 million Americana in Bal Harbour, Fla.-which was so flamboyantly luxurious, even by the standards of nearby Miami Beach, that it easily won the title of Miami's "hotel of the year...