Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gossip columnists were annoying Rex (Henry VIII) Harrison and Actress Lilli Palmer, who is currently starring in the Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. "We never go anywhere alone any more," Harrison said. "Why, even if I go out to lunch with my mother, a story will show up that mother and I are going steady...
...castle" at 1350 Lake Shore Drive was its center and showpiece and beneath its 80-ft. crenellated towers Bertha Palmer ruled without challenge. The entrance hall rose, tier on carved tier, three floors to a glass dome. The great fireplace was copied from an Italian palazzo, complete to andirons of smoked silver. There was a Louis XVI salon, a Spanish music room, an English dining room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rarest perfumes. There were no outside knobs or locks; anyone wanting to get in (and many did) had to ring...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
...Bertha Palmer died in 1918. For years, 1350 has been empty, grimily grotesque alongside Lake Shore's spare apartment buildings. The Millets and Corots were sent to the Art Institute, the furnishings sold. Last week bulldozers snorted across the bedraggled lawns, rooting out the old elms. The house was next: an apartment building would rise in its place...
...first Palmer House burned in 1871's Great Fire, 13 days after it opened; the second, completed in 1873, was replaced in 1927 by the present Palmer House...