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...best legal manner, the staid old law firm of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer harrumphed out a letter. It went to John K. Hill, an innkeeper in Center Ossipee, N.H. "It has come to the attention of our client, Hotels Statler Co., Inc., that you are using for your own inn the term 'The Statler of the Sticks' ... It is contrary to the policy of the Statler Co. to permit the use of its name...
...Gentlemen-Now I suppose that if I do not write and tell you that I will stop using the name 'Statler' in my advertising . . . you will make trouble for me. That will be an awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting...
Cornell, a university of great physical beauty, squats on a hill-above Cayuga's waters--in the Finger lakes region of New York State. It has a first class arts and sciences school but it takes much more pride in schools such as the three million dollar Statler School of Hotel Management, and its Schools of Industrial Relations, Home Economics, and Nutrition. The University has a Medical School in New York City...
...tour began at the Hotel Statler and led through Central Square. Lamont Library was the first Harvard building to appear. "That's a club building," the driver commented, "and the one past it is the College Library. The one with all the ivy." Turning right at the Square, he drove up toward Cambridge Common and pointed to a bronze statue labelled Sumner. "Now look past that information booth," he said. "That statue is John Harvard, founder of Harvard University." The sightseers murmured interestedly...
Back at the Statler, the driver quipped, "That's the end of the tour, folks. I hope you're satisfied." Most of the rubbernecks looked very, very satisfied. As the lady from Detroit put it--she had also spent the morning on the Historie and Modern Boston tour--"We go on these trips in every city. They're so educational...