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...Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee issued the call, but the group will choose a new name at the convention, scheduled for October 13-14 in New York City's McAlpin Hotel...
This is an amusing, thoroughly relaxing evening at Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater. Special praise should go to the venturesome Chelsea Theater Center, which originated this production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music along with Jean Genet's The Screens, recent winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best foreign play of the year...
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...
There was no mistaking the trend (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Besides the Palace, Sheraton last week picked up Manhattan's 1,500-room McAlpin for $9,000,000, its fifth hotel purchase in two months. Now the No. 2 chain in the country, with 32 hotels with room for 24,000 guests, the Sheraton beat No. 1 Operator Conrad Hilton (with 27 hotels sleeping 30,000) to the Palace by offering Mrs. Johnston about $6,500,000, or some $2,000,000 more than Hilton...