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...pleasure domes built along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club...
Last week Boca Raton got a new lease on luxury. In the biggest deal in recent Florida history, Arthur Vining Davis, one of Alcoa's founders, paid out $22.5 million to J. Myer Schine for the hotel and 1,000 acres of land. Davis, who owns 1,336,824 shares (6.5%) of Alcoa common stock and ranks among the world's richest men (one estimate: well over $350 million), plans to revamp the club into a resort for millionaires, cut up the land into estates. Said Davis: "While Florida will always offer ideal home sites for the middle...
...storm center of last year's Army-McCarthy blowoff, Civilian Schine planned to take up his chores (for which he drew handsome salaries throughout his Army days) as president and general manager of his father's nation-spanning chain of five hotels (e.g., Florida's Boca Raton, Los Angeles' Ambassador) and as boss of a string of more than 150 movie houses...
Championship Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS Radio & TV). For the bantamweight title: Thailand's Chamrern Songkitrat v. Mexico's Raton Macias...
...said there was nothing he could do about it, that Mr. Cohn had returned the night before at 8:50 p.m. from Florida, which is just 6½ hours after he talked to me on the telephone from Boca Raton, and there was nothing that Carr could do about...