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William Zeckendorf, whose deals have probably made him the No. 1 U.S. realtor, last week clinched his biggest deal yet. In Manhattan, President Arthur F. Douglas of the Statler Hotels announced that the board of directors had accepted an $80 million offer to sell out to Zeck-endorf's Webb & Knapp...
...Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower stepped into the lobby of Washington's Statler Hotel one night last week, convention-attending members of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America (see Music) broke into a serenade. Surprised and delighted, the President of the U.S. listened to Keep America Singing, waved his appreciation, and then moved on to the Presidential Room. There, 500 district leaders of the National Citizens for Eisenhower Congressional Committee, flashing big "Let's Back Ike" badges, gave him a wall-shaking welcome. This was the stuff campaigns are made...
Scoops & Swipes. Any area in the Statler Hotel (S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. headquarters) big enough for four men rang out in close harmony. Young and old, starch-shirted and sport-shirted, coated and uncoated, they harmonized. They bobbed and ducked in unison, cupped their ears, blew pitch pipes, rolled their eyes, leaned on each other's shoulders, swayed and rose on their toes. As elevators stopped at quiet floors and the doors opened, Carolina Moon or Bidin' My Time blasted down the hall. From behind closed doors and in the men's roona bits and pieces of When You Wore...
Schine rarely ate in Adams, preferring Boston hotels, particularly the Statler. In his last two years he spent most of his weekends in New York, and, according to one roommate, had a room reserved at the Waldorf Astoria. Much of his activity on these weekends was reportedly devoted to either chasing or being chased by women, most of them show-girls. On one occasion he even chased as far as Hollywood, where he had some well-publicized flirtatious with one of Joan Bennett's daughters and starlet Piper Laurie...
Schine did considerable entertaining himself at a suite in the Statler, but his Boston social life was somewhat limited. At the beginning he was invited to many socially prominent homes, but according to one person who knew him, Schine alienated many of his hosts by pulling his "telephone trick." This consisted of phoning from his car and saying "This is G. David Schine, I'm now driving through Copley Square, could you direct me a little further" and then later "This is G. David Schine, I'm now at Kenmore Square. Could you give me more directions please...