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...behind Potomac Parkway Plaza is George Preston Marshall, laundryman and owner of the Washington Redskins football team. For years he has thought that the land should be developed, and last year he persuaded Builder John W. Harris, who put up Washington's Statler Hotel, to form a syndicate to take an option on the land. Though the financing of the development is not completed and only the hotel and one office building (to cost a combined $30 million), and the plaza and garage have reached the blueprint stage, construction is expected to begin within six months...
...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Tarawa to lie off Boston, open for inspection. The Post Office dedicated a new purple 3? stamp, depicting the scales of justice, the owl of wisdom, the mirror of truth. A historical society put on display the records of the Salem witch trials. And the Statler Hotel thoughtfully stocked its rooms with such legal bedtime stories as a Nero Wolfe mystery in which the senior partner of a law firm gets knocked off (Murder by the Book...
...hotel chains have drawn up ambitious building plans. Statler, which has started work on a 450-room, $7,000,000 hotel in Hartford, Conn., will soon begin a $15 million, 1,000-room hotel in Dallas. Sheraton, in addition to its new $14 million Philadelphia hotel (TIME, July 6), will add 200 rooms each to its hotels in Baltimore and Rochester, 600 rooms to the Chicago Sheraton...
...Addressed the "spring conference" of Republican women, 1,290 strong. Greeted by a flurry of waving napkins when he strode into the Presidential Room of Washington's Hotel Statler, Ike got off to a lighthearted, cheer-rousing start: "It'has been proven, I think, that the average of intelligence among women ... is a trifle higher than among men. And I can understand it, because ... a greater percentage of women [than of men] voted Republican last fall." More seriously, he said that the U.S. seeks nothing from other nations "except the decency, the respect, the consideration that America herself...
...give his speech a final going-over, but instead lay down on a red satin sofa, pulled a blanket up to his chin, and sent word to the editors that he would arrive just after lunch. He seemed hale enough as he walked into the banquet hall at the Statler Hotel, and stood smiling as Hail to the Chief was pumped out by the Marine Band. His voice was strong as he began speaking. But, during the final quarter of his address, pain made him clutch the rostrum with both hands, his face went chalk-white, sweat stood...