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Tables at steel and concrete structures like the Ritz and Dorchester were at a premium, though there was an unaccustomed amount of foot room around the bars of the less durable pubs. Long before dark, queues of mothers and children waited outside tube entrances, carrying bundles of food and bedding. For U.S. soldiers, waiting in shelters was a new experience, but the kids' underground question was no different from the street-level question: "Got any gum, Yank...
...Alamo, Jimmy met Eddie Jack son, a gentle, sentimental, onetime singing waiter. And one day a cute little singer named Jeanne Olson dropped in by mistake (she was booked at the Ritz around the corner). Durante married...
Four Men. Three political generations of Germans were on trial. Langfeld, the oldest, was a horse-faced, clean-shaven, lipless veteran of World War I who told his story coldly. Weak-chinned, pompadoured Reinhard Retslow, 36, an agent of the Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply...
...Cornelius W. Dresselhuys smart, blonde asbestos heiress (sister of Playboy Tommy Manville), gave a sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless...
...leave, are told briefly the purpose of their 15-day visit, assigned to a place in a temporary squadron and to a room. Officers and enlisted men have equivalent accommodations, two to a room, although in different hotels. At Atlantic City, offi cers go to the Ritz, enlisted men to the Ambassador, both newly refurbished and operated by the Army...