Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started by War Correspondent Hemingway during the bloody battle of Huertgen Forest, was apparently a favorite of the author's. Later, in the Ritz Bar in Paris, he would often ask his friend Marlene Dietrich to read...
...style: "I met Jack Kennedy in November 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress. We went out one night on a double date . . . and I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz." Now, five months after the last installment appeared. Dial Press has published this tidied-up though not cleaned-up hard-cover version...
After wining, dining, and cavorting at the Pudding, she will retire to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and conduct a press conference about her new film, "Hallelujah Trail," to be released this spring...
Papa César founded the Paris hotel whose name became a synonym for class. Mama Mimi, after her husband's death, boarded Nazis during the Occupation, keeping the Allies posted on their travels. Last week Charles Ritz, 72, now Chairman of Paris' Ritz, flew to Manhattan to check into the strategies of Europe's latter-day invaders. He sampled a $90-a-day suite at the New York Hilton, ran his finger over the moldings, ordered snacks in from room service (usually in the wee hours), and emerged from his experiment reassured. "The Hilton is good...
Died. Walter Gibson, 63, Wall Street broker widely credited as the sole inventor of the subspecial martini that bears his surname; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a habitue of the Ritz in Paris, Gibson gratified two hitherto mutually exclusive tastes, for dry gin and pickled pearl onions, by schooling the bartender to substitute a single Allium cepa for the conventional olive in his favorite cocktail. His claim was coldly, drily disputed, however, by those who attributed the gin-onion union to Artist Charles Dana Gibson or the late Will Gibson, Gene Tunney's primetime manager...