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...been told France had suffered economically under German occupation. I saw fat horses drawing farm wagons, many with rubber tires. We went to the Ritz hotel . . . the big brass doorknobs and all the decorations were there...
Next day, the New York Herald Tribune coldly took Tourist Crawford to task for his talk. "We used to have the American who applauded Mussolini because he ran trains on time. . . . Now we have Mr. Crawford . . . who believes France is a land of luxury because the Ritz Hotel. . . still has its big brass doorknobs. With this type of innocent abroad . . . there is not much that can be done...
...date then entailed a fearsome food bill. Since there were plenty of men to go around, girls did not worry about their figures. Appetites were hearty--women heartless. The order of the day ran, "The way to a girl's heart is her stomach." The Copley, the Ritz, or, in a pinch, the Statler, was the only place to dine. And when a college girl went out, she went to dine...
...hordes of prewar tourists and expatriates who flocked from the U.S. to forgather on the banks of the Seine, a copy of the Herald was a breath from home, almost as good as meeting an old friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen, a year or two on the Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop...
Died. Florence Foster Jenkins, 76, billowing coloratura, well-to-do sponsor of her own costumed concerts at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel; one month after her Carnegie Hall recital debut (where her rose-petal-strewn rendition of Clavelitos was wildly bravoed); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...