Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year he joined Manhattan's American Machine & Foundry as vice president for marketing, from which he resigned before coming to Gruen. ¶ Atherton Bean, 44, was named president of Minneapolis' International Milling Co. (world's second largest flour miller, after General Mills), succeeding Charles Ritz, 63, who moved up to chairman. Bean's grandfather founded the firm in 1892. and his father, Francis A. Bean, is retiring as chairman. The new president is an honor graduate of Minnesota's Carleton College ('31), and Rhodes scholar. He joined International in 1937, had a wartime...
...fortune of "a few million" made by buying up properties cheap and improving them for resale. Sonnabend has won control (chairman of the board) of Botany Mills, is president of the Childs restaurant chain, now runs a string of seven hotels, including Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower. In 1950 Sonnabend and his associates bought Cleveland's $100 million Van Sweringen property for a total of $35 million, of which they had to put up only...
...Lanham's 22nd Infantry Regiment, he went through the Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, the Hiirtgen Forest bloodletting and the defense of Luxembourg. Gathering 200 French irregulars around him, he negotiated huge allotments of ammunition and alcohol and assisted in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted a guard below to notify incoming friends: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cellar." Commander of the Chain. The postwar Hemingway settled into another good hotel, the Gritti in Venice, to write "the big book" about World War II (a draft is now finished). But a piece...
...notoriously unproducible Marshal Joffre. The hero of the Marne had secretly agreed to be taken prisoner, and Elsa had him "captured" by a National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair of P. T. Barnum...
Hopeful of finding a place for art even in the market, the Uris brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think...