Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail to await a jury's definition of justice...
When first we practice to deceive!-Sir Walter Scott...
...group of spiritual shouters. At the World's Fair, she was in the chorus of the all-Negro Hot Mikado. Says she: "They tried to make a Mae West out of me." Instead she enrolled at the long-haired Juilliard School of Music. Later she married Neil Scott, one of the "screamers" in Hot Mikado...
...another Napoleonic railroad plan. Claughton, holder of one of the largest single blocks of stock in the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy"), came a cropper with his first plan to control Katy's board of directors (TIME, April 23). He lost out to Katy President Matthew Scott Sloan,* who died a month later. Into his job went a friend of Claughton's, softspoken, malleable Raymond John ("Mike") Morfa, onetime assistant to Allegheny Corp.'s Robert Ralph Young...