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Modern hotels claim luxury with a color telephone in the bathroom and an electric shoeshine kit in the closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hotel: With a Smile | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...rather special segment of mankind occupies Kingsley's boozy, smoke-hazy, symbolic inferno, a red-velours-lined Manhattan key club. But essentially the members of this eclectic hell divide be tween the damned and the dim. The damned shine phosphorescently. The dim give off flickers of goodness. Among the damned: an ambisextrous movie queen (Salome Jens), a thuggish labor czar (Neville Brand). Among the dim: a songstress with maternal yearnings (Carol Lawrence), a lawyer with a festering case of Korean combat fatigue (Jack Kelly), an aging poet-turned-furniture-dealer (Walter Abel) and his wife (Carmen Mathews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Damned & the Dim | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...last, the varsity distance men will have their hands full (rain or shine) with the University of Massachusetts on Tuesday. "That will be our toughest race until the Big Three in November," according to McCurdy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Harriers Upset Opponents | 10/20/1962 | See Source »

Harvard led, 3-7, and happiness reigned in the Harvard stands. For the first time in the afternoon the sun came out seemingly indicating heavenly approval. The sun continued to shine throughout the rest of the game, and the Crimson continued to improve...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Crimson Power Crumples Lehigh, 27-7 | 10/1/1962 | See Source »

...simply to collect $1.25 if it rains and shooting is called off. When the weather reports are favorable, chits are traded for as much as $2.50. Inclement offings will send the asking price plummeting as low as 50?. Of course the brokers take 10%, rain or shine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Runaways | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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