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...afternoon early last October a happy, jaunty Irishman, whose bantam-sized body houses an almost inhuman store of nervous energy, strolled into his four-room apartment in Washington's elegant Shoreham Hotel. With sly casualness, fully aware of the dramatics of the occasion, he said to his wife: "Well, Maude, I've just given up my job." The job was that of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court-which had seemed, 16 months before, like the pinnacle of achievement to a man born on the wrong end of famed, aristocratic King Street in Charleston, South Carolina...
...Builder Kaiser, rolling swiftly about the town, testified before two Senate committees, conferred with WPBoss Donald Nelson, spoke at a National Press Club luncheon, held a two-hour press conference for women reporters in his chart-littered suite at the Shoreham Hotel. The women were fascinated by a man who talked facts to them, who did not talk down to them. His proposal even crashed the society page of the Washington Post, under that paper's new wartime policy of writing social notes almost exclusively about people active in the war effort...
...Japanese poured in? There was sparse news to give the U.S. a clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested in 44 years...
...only Englishman at the hotel. Already installed was the son of the "exceedingly respectable Member for New Shoreham," Percy Bysshe Shelley, together with his mistress, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and her stepsister, Byron's ex-mistress, Claire Clairmont. "Like many professional libertines," says Author Quennell, "Byron had a deep regard for the domestic proprieties," distrusted Shelley's brand of radicalism-"all green tea and fine feelings. ..." But he was reassured when he observed that Shelley was "as perfect a gentleman as ever crossed a drawing-room." Soon they were having a fine romantic time together. One midnight Byron...
...Conventioners met not in a motor court, but in the swank Norman and Shoreham hotels...