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...learned that his father had had a serious automobile accident, that he must go up to London at once. He packed the one brown suitcase that is supposed to be sufficient for Sandroyd boys, put on his belted overcoat and his school cap, got into the car. At the Ritz "Granny," Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, was waiting for him. Looking even more dramatic than usual, she wept a great deal, but would say nothing beyond the fact that there had been ''an accident, my God, a terrible accident." There was a whispered conference among the grownups...
...Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle the domestic business which this year gave ''Duggie" an interest of approximately $2.500.000 in the Derby. By the time the horses lined up at Epsom Downs last week, Sidney Freeman in his Ritz Carlton suite was busy computing what profit the firm stood to make out of his U. S. commitments-over $100,000 for tickets or shares in tickets of timid ticketholders...
...Ritz Carlton, where he heard the race by radio, Sidney Freeman counted his profits, gayly refused to reveal the result-except that for tickets on the winning horses, worth $225.000 to him. he had paid...
Into Manhattan marched Publisher Hearst for the first time in three years. He held court at the Brisbane-owned Ritz Towers, received a hundred admiring Hearstlings, slipped away for a first glimpse of his newest grandson...
Although many do not yet know their field of concentration, 39 said they would major in Economics, and 32 in English. Other leading fields were Bio-Chemical Sciences, History, and Government. One ambitious Freshman decided to live at the Ritz and major in diplomacy...