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Belmont's Barn 20 is an equine Ritz-Carlton, decorated with bright splashes of Vanderbilt's cerise and white and run by a veteran drill sergeant of a foreman who has Vanderbilt's and Winfrey's mandate to buy whatever he needs to keep the race horses fit and happy. Stall 6 is the royal suite. The Dancer, afflicted with the typical thin skin of the grey, suffers from the heat and can't stand flies, so there are fans to keep the air moving through the stall and an automatic fly-spraying system for the entire barn...
...meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple pun, described the event: "The well-bread Ritz Hotel . . . was decked out like a wedding cake . . . Pillsbury spared no expense to see that there were flours on every table, whether they kneaded them...
Last week Schwab's was getting some lively competition. No sooner had Schwab's announced that three visiting Italian starlets would be guests at its soda fountain for publicity pictures and ice cream than the Beverly-Wilshire Hotel Drugstore retaliated with a bulletin that the Ritz brothers would throw a party for friends at Booth No. 1. "This is the table," a solemn announcement reminded patrons, "where the R.K.O.-Stolkin deal was practically concluded some time...
Still lumbering about Europe before getting on with his African trip, Ernest Hemingway described his latest literary output to a Paris interviewer in the Ritz bar: "Been working steady for three years. Finished three books since Old Man and the Sea. Going to let them lie for a year and then go back over them again. Don't have any titles for any of them yet. I never select a title until the book is finished...
...grandiose sweep of his cane and exclaimed: "This was nothing more than a bankrupt cow pasture 17 years ago." For ebullient Promoter George S. May, 63, the 134-acre pasture has grown spectacularly solvent and lushly green. It is now known as Tam O'Shanter, the nouveau Ritz among country clubs, whose 6,915-yd. golf course has a telephone on every...