Word: savoyism
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...short-term debts, the British had demanded that Zeckendorf sell some of Webb & Knapp's holdings. But Zeckendorf's idea of liquidation differed from his partners': though he sold some holdings, he kept right on buying others (among the purchases: $25 million for Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel). Outraged, the British sent to New York a relay of executives, who camped out in Zeckendorf's Madison Avenue offices to try to halt his acquisitions. But, in his own inimitable way, Zeckendorf confounded the British Expeditionary Force. He made his deals at breakfast, while driving...
Later in the week, Zeckendorf retrenched still more, sold off one-third of Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel (which he owns, but which is managed by Hilton) to London Merchant Securities, Ltd., a British investment trust. He has also agreed to sell 850 acres of development land in California...
...spite of a dreary London drizzle, a pale but smiling Sir Winston Churchill, 87, showed up at the Savoy for his first social engagement since he broke his left thighbone last June. The occasion: the annual dinner of The Other Club, a meeting and eating society of politicians, lawyers, soldiers and wits that Winnie helped found 51 years...
...Aviv airport, Soblen hailed a taxi, went to the seaside Savoy Hotel, showed the passport, got a room, and began making phone calls to cousins and childhood friends from his birthplace in Lithuania. When he tried one number-41614-he was told that it had been disconnected, and he shouted angrily at the hotel operator: "It's impossible! That's one number I must get!" Throughout the next day, he strolled the nearby streets, conferred with an attorney friend, and read the newspapers. Then, next morning, alerted by newspaper stories, three Israeli policemen knocked on his door...
After manfully weathering a chichi London wedding as a satin-suited, ostrich-plumed Lord Fauntleroyish page, the Earl of Sunderland, 5, grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and distant cousin to Sir Winston Churchill, foundered at the subsequent Savoy Hotel reception. His stiff upper lip curling, out came a petulant tongue, and with it, a noise less associated with Belgravia than The Bronx...