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...until his eyes failed. He got a job as a roustabout, pushing barrels around the basement of the old Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach, and then he decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria. By 1929, harddriving, handsome Innkeeper Boomer thought he knew just what people wanted in a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: He Knew What They Wanted | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...students who have not made up their minds where to spend their next summer vacation may find it worth their while to read the two articles by Messrs. Sandys and Anderson, (both illustrated by A. Hencke) the first, "Through Muskoka Maroel Lands," on one beautiful spot in Canada, and the second, "Nova Scotia as a Summer Resort," on another. Unfortunately each author is so positive that the place which he describes is the most beautiful portion of the continent, that anyone who is now in uncertainty will probably find his problem still harder to decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing. | 6/1/1892 | See Source »

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