Word: roc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a little over a year ago, the owner of a small Miami nightspot gave her job at $125 a week ("It seemed like fortune"). Then Walter Winchell spottec her, and Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel hired Roberta at $1,700 a week. Decca Records signed her. Now she makes as much as $5,000 a week...
Also Free Wieners. Those who could not get into the Americana (booked solid through January) could try "last year's hotel," the $8,000,000, 350-room Eden Roc, or the $14 million, 565-room Fontainebleau with its $200-a-day suites and two swimming pools which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
...than-ever season ahead, hotelmen already have a new worry: Where can they get land for more hotels? Hotels now jam every inch of the commercially available beach front; the rest, about one mile of beach front, is zoned for private estates. To build the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, waivers had to be secured allowing private-land to be put to commercial use; for its site the Americana had to go six miles north of Lincoln Road-the Beach's main stem-to Bal Harbour, which is, strictly speaking, outside Miami Beach...
Last week the Miami Beach city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million...
...busy carving such dedications as "Pour Suzette," "A Jeanette" into souvenir rings and bracelets which the King liked to pass out among his female acquaintances). This year he has eyes only for his bride. Moreover, the flabby King is taking exercise-he has been observed splashing at the Eden Roc pool like a melancholy walrus-and he works two or three hours a day with his advisers, keeping the long-distance lines to Cairo humming...