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Breaking the Bandwagon. After a ten-minute arm's length chat with Stevenson in Truman's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite, Harry Truman held a press conference, and let go kersplat with his first great crusher of the week. "I will," he said delightedly, "let the people know for whom I stand before the convention meets." A newsman asked if Truman was just trying to baffle every one. Chortled Harry: "That is exactly right...
Into a highceilinged, cream-colored room in Washington's Hotel Sheraton-Carlton one night last week crowded television technicians with bulky equipment and wand mikes. Sixteen reporters, recruited at $125 a head, were ready to help TV Producer Martha Rountree launch her new NBC program, Press Conference. The object of all attention: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., invited by Moderator Rountree (at no cash fee: he got a 20-volume, leather-bound encyclopedia instead) to be the first of a series of key figures to be interviewed. There was a gimmick: Brownell was expected to make an important...
...been decided upon without much warning at a midnight medical conference. It came as a final twist to a dramatic, tense, often confusing 32 hours that began on Thursday night, when the President attended the annual banquet of the White House News Photographers Association in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel...
First Intimation. Ike had rarely seemed healthier or happier. In white jacket and black tie, he arrived at the Sheraton-Park shortly after 7 p.m., grinned and handshook his way through a reception, sipping at a Scotch-on-the-rocks, then at part of another. His color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself...
Last week's deal was eight years in the making. Bachelor Eugene C. Eppley, 72, a big stockholder in both Hilton and Sheraton chains, had long been anxious to retire. Sheraton's purchase, said Henderson, will "substantially narrow the gap" between his chain and Hilton's. With new hotels abuilding in Philadelphia and Dallas, the Sheraton empire now boasts 54 hotels, 25 more than the Hilton chain, although Hilton has 1,700 more rooms and grosses some $40 million more a year. All the Eppley hotels are in new territory for Sheraton, and all but three were...