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Porters will put up at the Ritz. From Paris he plans to motor to Rome and, naturally, on to Venice. From Italy he will fly to Athens. Then he will take a yacht-already chartered-and trace a lazy course among the sunny Greek islands of the Aegean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...finally comes around when the honeymoon is over. It was over for me in the Ritz bar one hour after the Cornell game. For the team, it wasn't a honeymoon on the long train ride from Ithaca to Cambridge. It wasn't a welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Crimson, After Victory and Defeat, Is Finally a Team | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...moral equivalents of war," the safe ways of working off man's aggressive tendencies. Perhaps football is a moral equivalent which will someday save us all, but even this happy prospect cannot account for the standees on the Stadium roof and the 10,000 extra olives at the Ritz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Game | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Boston, the Myles-Standish, the Sheraton, the Ritz-Carleton and the Touraine have no rooms left. Only two hotels, the Statler and the Pioneer, reported vacancies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hotel Room Scarce For Big Eli Weekend | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...lined, lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goldfish Bowl | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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