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Washington's Statler Hotel fairly rocked with positive thinking last Week as the International New Thought Alliance, percussively dedicated to "Peace, Poise, Power and Plenty," rejoiced in annual convention. From all over the U.S., plus England and Canada, 1,814 enthusiasts of such movements as "Religious Science," "Divine Science," "Church of Truth," "Church of Understanding" and "Science of Mind" gathered to cheer one another, bless money and annihilate negative ideas...
About him billowed campaign accouterments: pirouetting blondes swathed in red, white and blue; hosiery, haberdashery and lollipops inscribed "I like Ike"; memos about coffee hours for Eisenhower; recipes for beef-stew suppers for Eisenhower. Grinning as he entered the Hotel Statler's Congressional Room, where the National Citizens for Eisenhower executive campaign conference was encamped, the subject of this unquenchable admiration was struck less by glitter and gewgaws than by the sudden impact of an anniversary...
...chain, largest and oldest personally owned hotel group in the U.S. Its 22 properties in six states range from Pittsburgh's 1,500-room William Penn to the 123-room Tallcorn in Marshalltown, Iowa. Price: $30 million. (In the biggest deal, Conrad Hilton paid $78 million for the Statler chain...
Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler was flapping distress flags from every halyard. "There is no use kidding ourselves," said Butler. "The Democratic Party is confronted with a financial crisis." Butler was imparting the bad news to the Democratic National Committee, which met in Washington's Statler Hotel and rounded out its week with a poorly attended (2,500 guests) $100-a-plate dinner at the Washington Armory...
Died. Arthur F. Douglas. 53, onetime (1945-54) president of Hotels Statler Co., Inc. (until it was sold to Hilton Hotels Corp.), younger brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; of a heart attack; in Cuttingsville...