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...plainly enjoyed being a celebrity among celebrities. He went fishing with Charles Ritz, the Paris hotel man, and considered fighting a duel over Ava Gardner, whose honor somebody had insulted. In Paris he invariably cultivated Georges Carpentier, the prizefighter turned saloon owner; in New York he befriended Restaurateur Toots Shor, and despite an often-expressed desire for privacy, went on the town with Gossip Columnist Leonard Lyons. He not only allowed but encouraged the world to turn him into a character. He had well-publicized talks about child care with Grandmother Marlene Dietrich ("The Kraut"), jovially referred to himself...
Losses. The Re operations often caused the stock to slump, and many a celebrity was reportedly victimized, including Restaurant Owner Toots Shor, Milwaukee Braves Manager Chuck Dressen and Vincent F. Albano Jr., Republican leader of Manhattan's East Side. Even Exchange President Edward T. McCormick turned up in the investigation as a onetime Re customer who spent $1,800 for over-the-counter stocks (which they were not licensed to sell...
...down (it opens again next week, in a new spot two blocks east), and the gilded popinjays of two worlds turned up to keen. Surrealist Salvador Dali was there in a vest that could have been made by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, chatting with Mrs. Hugh ("Chic Rosie") Chisholm. Toots Shor made a ground swell on the dance floor. The usual duchesses were there (Argyll, Westminster), the usual film stars (Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda), the usual sporty financiers (Serge Semenenko, Huntington Hartford). The room where Humphrey Bogart once fought a woman over a toy panda was awash with unfiltered nostalgia...
Excavating cost him about $1,000,000; another $1,500,000 went to Toots Shor, whose sporty restaurant on the site came tumbling down. By this spring the estimated cost of the hotel had risen to $80 million, but Zeckendorf was still $35 million short. He scurried around trying to interest Hotelman Laurence Tisch and the Sheraton and Hilton hotel chains in bailing him out. All said no: construction and rental costs for the site were too high to make a hotel...
...Everybody's happy the Times finally made up its mind about a drama critic," wrote the New York Daily News's Broadway columnist, Robert Sylvester. "Now Yogi Berra and Toots Shor can relax...