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Just 90 minutes before Dwight Eisenhower was due to appear at a conference of Republican women in Washington's Hotel Statler last week, the women's publicity director for the Republican National Committee, Mrs. Anne Wheaton. got a phone call from her old friend, Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty. Everything fine? Jim wanted to know. Anne Wheaton said yes. "Then," said the astonished Mrs. Wheaton later, "he asked me if I had a chair handy." Hagerty had a piece of news: the President had decided (thanks to Hagerty's good word) to appoint her associate press secretary...
There, while aides watched the early returns, Kefauver napped. Finally, in the smoke-filled Statler Hotel Presidential Room, in a maze of glowing lights, foot-tripping cord and people jostling each others' highball glasses, he made the loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime Democratic National chairman, insisted that his man had emerged from the pasting unscarred, unscathed, even enhanced. "How about 1960?" some of the crowd yelled. Kefauver's sagging face lit up and split into a crescent-moon grin. "I'm just thinking of relaxing for the next...
HILTON HOTELS CORP., which already controls three Manhattan hotels (WaldorfAstoria, Plaza, Statler), will take over the Savoy-Plaza early next year. In stock swap, Hilton will give about $15 million worth of its securities for 1,000-room hotel...
...incoming alumni will be feted with barbecues, parties, dances, athletic events, and the Cornell band. Most important of the scheduled activities will be the annual meeting of the Federation of Cornell Men's Clubs in Statler Hall after the game. Fifty-two official delegates will attend...
Platinum blonde Mrs. Luzette Oostdyke-Sparin of Los Angeles seemed to make the rostrum her second home. "Isn't it beautiful that Mr. Statler has put this initial 'S' on it for us," she cried. "It stands for Spirit-for soul!" Dr. Ruth E. Chew, in a lecture entitled "Shine, Shimmer, Scintillate," told how she put people on "a diet of joy." By way of an appetizer, she had the audience repeat after her twice: "I am filled with joy; joy, gladness and delight make everything all right." Her joy diet, said Dr. Chew, can heal anything...