Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 32,565-ton Columbus was again being partly rebuilt, not in her birthplace Danzig, but at the foot of Manhattan's 46th St.-where, with 350 of her 600 crew sent on part pay to Germany for seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above...
Holder of a 745-year-old title, Count Castelbarco had long been an art collector and ban vivant when he decided, seven years ago, to take up painting seriously. To Manhattan he brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...
...investment under Hitz handling, it decided to give him control of other hotels it was stuck with in Depression. Created in 1932, therefore, was National Hotel Management Co., Inc. with Ralph Hitz as president. By 1937 N. H. M. was managing (not owning) eight hotels in seven cities* with a success that has made Ralph Hitz perhaps the most famed U. S. boniface. Last week, in connection with N. H. M.'s ninth hotel, Manhattan's Belmont Plaza, Ralph Hitz added to the Hitz legend...
...hero of a rambling, repetitious memoir by her onetime commander. Filled with cranky asides about war, the British, the flu, spies, religion, written with a heavy-handed humor, Take Her Down nevertheless gives an entertaining picture of submarine life. While the L-9 was being towed with seven other U. S. submarines to the Azores, en route to the War zone, during a hurricane her towline parted; a fire extinguisher tore loose, sprayed the torpedo room with a white sticky froth; both magnetic and gyroscopic compasses were smashed, most of the crew were laid out. The captain decided to turn...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...