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Cheerily waving his hat to an admiring crowd at London airport, Sir Winston Churchill took off with Lady Churchill two days after their 47th wedding anniversary for a vacation on the French Riviera, less than three hours later was motoring from Nice to the Cap-d'Ail villa of Lord Beaverbrook, where he will put up for a while...
...Less than five months after it opened, the 250 room, $5 million Royal Nevada was losing so much money that it was being taken over by the Desert Inn, a comparative oldtimer. The veteran management of the Flamingo hotel was moving in to rescue the shaky $8,000,000 Riviera. The $3,000,000 Moulin Rouge, built to lure in Negroes, had to be reorganized. Last week the well-established Sands took over the three-month-old, $4,000,000 Dunes on a ten-year lease at $750,000 annually, launched the Grand Reopening in a blaze of hoopla starring...
...coins in the slot machines (5% profit for the house). Last June most of the hotels were forced to alter a longstanding policy, and charge a $2 minimum for the midnight supper shows that guests could once see by sitting at a table and ordering a soft drink. Said Riviera Board Chairman Morrie Mason: "We don't think that we, or any other hotel, should give away a $30,000 show for a Coke and two straws...
Landing on the Riviera, Johnston lugged his recording gear through Savoy to the link-up with Patton's army, advancing through the dragon's teeth of the Siegfried Line. The Seine was his fifth river, but the only experience Johnston records in Paris is of an unsuccessful brothel crawl. Soon he was back with Patton, blasting a path towards the Americans encircled in Bastogne. That Christmas, General Patton issued greeting cards with a prayer for good weather so that his fighter-bombers could strafe the Nazi armor. When the skies began clearing slowly, old Blood and Guts ordered...
...lark. Those ingenious instants of terror for which Hitchcock is so well known are missing. But there remains the familiar Hitchcock pace and wit, the easy salability of such stars as Kelly and Grant, solid supporting performances by Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams, and lingering views of the Riviera...