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After a month of hide-&-seek, Mrs. Durant was traced to the home of her sister in Hudson, Wis. MPs surrounded the house but Mrs. Durant slipped out the back door, fled by taxi and train to Chicago. She met her husband, and at 5 p.m. on June 2 both...
Shortly after midnight, people in the La Salle Hotel's big, ornate lobby in Chicago's Loop noticed a strange yellow light reflecting from polished table tops, from marble and window glass. The wavering glare grew. They looked up and saw flames billowing gustily across the dark, varnished...
They stood for a moment not believing their eyes. Fire? In the quiet, respectable, "fireproof" La Salle? A window drapery flared into flame. A fear-crazed crowd burst from the Silver Lounge on the ground floor, jammed through the doors. The brightly lighted lobby, deserted, crackled with fire.
Man of Caution. Once a messenger boy in Chicago's La Salle Street, Kirkeby now owns nine hotels worth $30,000,000. Last year they had a gross income of $20,000,000, a net after taxes of $1,500,000. He first got interested in hotels in 1934...
Shouting, "Tout pour le front lopulaire -everything for the lopular front!" 10,000 exuberant conspirators converged on the square before their favorite Tav-erne du Pantheon, known as the Lopo-drome. Police barred their way. Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop. . . ." (to the...