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...York Hospital's George F. Baker Pavilion, while U.N. officials, Asiatic friends and U.S. diplomats tiptoed to his bedside. Though he had won a spectacular reputation for fainting at appropriate moments, he was pronounced in good health by U.S. doctors. After that, he quietly moved himself to the Ritz Tower. He was in New York to tell the U.N. Security Council (and a nationwide TV audience) that it had no business interfering with Iran's decision to kick out the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. State Department men, noting that he had brought along his oil experts, thought...
...years since she had last been seen and heard in England, Tallulah Bankhead gave the public a refresher course when she arrived in London to do a radio show. The course began with a press conference in the green and gold Marie Antoinette room of the Ritz Hotel...
Other inhabitants of the Square have disappeared too, but for different reasons. The mammoth lady bouncer at the New Ritz isn't seen any more, since the place is now closed down...
...board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion, I'll make...
...Senate when he realized he had made a bad mistake. Even during the campaign, while Duff thundered against Grundy's "privileged-few" brand of Republicanism, Judge Fine was meeting secretly with Grundy's faithful lieutenant, G. Mason Owlett, in a room in Philadelphia's Ritz-Carlton. A few days after the governor's inauguration, Mason Owlett reappeared in Harrisburg. In other days, Owlett was the man who brought to the governor's office a budget prepared by the Grundy machine. Duff had ordered him out. Governor Fine welcomed him in. Owlett has been making himself...