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...Towns to be visited in the next three weeks: New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Albany and Montclair...
When the Belmont Plaza was called the Montclair it made itself a certain reputation but no money. It lost many patrons to N. H. M.'s flashy Hotel Lexington, less than two blocks away. Hitz had taken over the Lexington in 1932, put in his old friend Charles E. Rochester as manager and by 1936 had upped annual gross operating revenues from $74,000 to $400,000. Last June when the Montclair was offered for sale, Hitz and a group of friends proceeded to buy it for $3,000,000. Thereupon, Hotel Lexington, Inc. canceled its contract with...
...being photographed on microfilm. There is a cemetery I want to see,' he continued, 'a grove where ancient trees shelter the graves and throw their umbrage on the imponderable dead. The branches of these trees, my dear young man, are alive with loudspeakers. I believe Upper Montclair is the place. That is one reason for my departure-I have certain macabre pilgrimages to make, while the lustiness is still in my bones...
...merchandise manager in six years. When he was in charge of Ward's retail stores his ambitions for his end of the business were so great as to jar the habitual harmony between Ward's mail order and retail business. Since he moved from Wilmette, Ill. to Montclair, N. J. he has had a lot of fun fishing as a member of the Atlanta Tuna Club at Block Island...
...nothing. I've applied for home relief but they laughed at me when I told them I was one of the Ebbets. . . . I even tried to get a job at Ebbets Field but they won't let an Ebbets in there." Moping about her cold parlor in Montclair, N. J., Miss Ada E. Ebbets, 69-year-old sister of President Ebbets, revealed that she too had received no money for four years from the estate executors. Few weeks ago occurred the Dodgers' annual Ebbets dinner, paid for by a $5,000 trust fund left by President Ebbets...