Word: sheraton
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...Washington the company's name is Hotelevision, but the gimmick is the same: a repeating half-hour program to be launched at the Sheraton-Park Hotel and the Shoreham late in March. In addition to standard what-to-do-and-see features, Hotelevision will run stock market news, show slides and film clips of key tourist spots such as the White House. Various companies hope to open circuits in other U.S. cities in the future...
More to Come. This year, half a dozen major buildings were completed in downtown Chicago, including the 41-story, marble-faced home office of the United Insurance Co. of America and a $10 million, 600-room addition to the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Now abuilding are another half-dozen handsome structures ranging from an eight-story headquarters for the American College of Surgeons to the 17-story headquarters of the United States Gypsum...
Last week both the old rich and the new rich were on hand for the Police Athletic League ball at the Sheraton-East. Such recognized society names as Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich, Mrs. Michael Phipps and Mrs. John R. Fell made an appearance, but most went home early, leaving the glamorous matrons with such first-name tags as Dee-Dee and Gri-Gri to dance the Twist. The proceeds (at $50 a ticket) amounted to $15,000; everybody had a grand time, and any stranger could tell that the ballgoers were glad to have a Police Athletic League in need...
...drawing room. In his own way Walpole ran a factory of anecdote and gossip, with duchesses doing piecework and Cabinet ministers tying up parcels and ambassadors acting as delivery boys. But the products themselves were all personally hand-finished; the letters proved as durably elegant as Lamerie silver or Sheraton sideboards...
Into Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel last week walked the vice presidents of the U.S.'s major airlines under an unusual safe-conduct guarantee from the Government. To allow the airline executives to come to realistic grips with their mounting problems and to work out some solutions, the Government promised them a seldom granted immunity from antitrust prosecution while they put their heads together. The meeting followed by only a week a closed meeting of major airline presidents with the Civil Aeronautics Board's new Chairman Alan S. Boyd-and illustrated the sorry state in which...