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...Cleveland, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York and dozens of other big cities, TV watchers were almost as excited-they clotted up around dealers' show windows, jockeyed cunningly for position at bars, ate with their eyes upraised in restaurants which had video screens. In Boston, even a bank-the Statler Branch of the Second National-installed a set. It got crowds too, and the tellers had a hard time keeping their eyes on the money. Wall Street traders followed the games, although stocks were at their highest levels in 20 years...
Dean Donald K. David of the Business School will be chairman of the 23rd Boston Conference on Distribution's first day luncheon meeting at the Hotel Statler on October...
...peppery Ambassador Luis Machado, danced and drank champagne till 3 a,m. Asked later who was there, Machado said: "Just our favorite people-and the prettiest girls in Washington."* The third night, protocol reigned again: it was Galo Plaza's turn to stage" the dinner, at the Statler Hotel, and all the people, including the President and Dean Acheson, who had attended the other formalities donned their summer jackets once more...
...more than a month of clamor and vilification over the removal of General Douglas MacArthur. But last week, breathing the same cocky belligerence with which he had campaigned in 1948, he suddenly started fighting back-Politician Truman's way. He began with a morning speech in the Hotel Statler's big grey and white Presidential Room; after only a minute or so of following a prepared text, he laid it aside, lifted his head, began to bounce on his heels and launched a burst of off-the-cuff oratory...
Vinson, who does more to push through the Administration's military bills than any other man, got his dander up. "You might pick up the paper tomorrow morning and find where the Army had taken over the Statler Hotel," he told the House. "Your responsibility as it stands today would be merely to foot the bill . . . It is the people's money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases...