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...affair was Paris' biggest and smartest since the liberation. In the refined splendor of the Hotel Ritz garden last week, some 1,500 diplomats and millionaires and their ladies gathered to sip champagne and nibble pastries in honor of the hotel's 50th birthday. None contributed more glitteringly to the glitter than a white-haired little woman who greeted them at the entrance in fluent French, English or Spanish. She was 81-year-old Marie Louise ("Mimi") Ritz, widow of the man who founded the hotel-and thereby made his name a synonym for ultra-fashionable...
Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...
Cold Cigars. From Voisin's, Ritz moved on to successively bigger jobs in Nice, San Remo, Lucerne, Rome, BadenBaden, Vienna. He remembered and carefully catered to the whims of such tourists as Cornelius Vanderbilt (who liked to chew cold cigars), John Wanamaker (who asked "are you leading a Christian life?"), the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (who liked his beef well-done). On one of the jobs, César Ritz formed a lifelong partnership with an obscure chef named Auguste Escoffier...
...stand at 10 to 3 or later possibly be awarded to Yale on a forfeit tally of 1 to 0. Both officials were assigned to the game by Asa R. Bushnell of the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The summary: HARVARD YALE Coulter lw Wood Key o Moher McKean rw Ritz Greeley rd Dalley Washburn ld Welch Lavalle g Burns...
Scoring, First Period: Wood (Ritz) 7:59; Ritz (Wood) 8:55; Welch (Dalley) 9:17; Soper (Clapp, Armour) 10:40; Armour (Clapp) 17:02; Clapp (Calhoun, Armour) 18:50; Ward (Minot) 19:30. Second Period: Arnold (Huntington, Abbot) 3:10; Guernsey (Read) 15:10; Moher (Wood) 18:29. Third Period: Clapp (Soper, Allen) 3:44; Guernsey (Read) 6:48; Greeley (unassisted...