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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barr's transformation has also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...
Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...
...card to cash checks, then went on to Las Vegas. There he shot dice at the same table with Frank Sinatra, who said: "Let the kid roll." He rolled and won $400, flew back to Manhattan and checked into the Henry Hudson Hotel in a $60-a-day room. He engaged it for a month to get the $30-a-day economy rate...
...custom-tailored silk shirts, four pairs of slacks, two sports jackets, an evening outfit of tuxedo, patent leather shoes, soft black hat and walking stick. To hold his finery, he charged two pieces of luggage, flew to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel and took a $21-a-day room. There, the first suspicious glance was cast at his credit card. The hotel asked for it "to check" did not give it back...
...Saturday night," announced George Davidson, as if he were addressing an audience of 200, "and everybody has something to do. But their diversions tempt me no more; tonight I shall stay in my room and study." He picked up a laundry box, wrote the name of a course on each side, and flipped it. "Shakespeare," he discovered after the box had landed, "Henry...