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Valets at the Fairmount Hotel on Nob Hill groaned when they discovered that the flowing white robes of the Saudi Arabians had to be pressed daily. The Arabians steadfastly refused to sign autographs (as did the Russians), obeyed Moslem laws and drank only fruit punch and orange juice in the bars. Bellboys at the Mark Hopkins complained that the British and the Chinese were the poorest tippers, averaging a dime (the British are accustomed to tipping once, on arrival or departure...
...fiasco failed to dim either Merola's enthusiasm or his dark-eyed powers of persuasion. In 1923, backed by a $35,000 advance sale and $25,000 from the members of Nob Hill's rich Pacific Union Club, Merola launched his first regular season...
Civic Attraction. In San Francisco, Monteux's portly figure, dyed black hair and Gallic wit have long since become civic features. He lives with his excitable, rolypoly French wife in the oldfashioned, palatial Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. The Monteux blue-serge suits and pearl stickpins are often seen in social salons...
...year or so ago the goodtime Charlies were hiking to the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill or streaking for the Pump Room in Chicago or screaming for cracked ice in the Adolphus in Dallas, but now there is all the trouble and hurrah anyone could ask for in Times Square and Madison Avenue. Manhattan is once more America's play town de luxe...
...rich, belongs to swank Pacific Union and San Francisco Golf & Country clubs, plays "awe-inspiring" contract bridge, is regarded by his admiring son, Lewis, as one of the world's "two or three best putters." All these things might have added up to a "Barefoot Boy from Nob...