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...crowded ballroom of St. Louis' Statler Hotel one day last week, a heavyset, greying woman rose at the speakers' table, eyed her luncheon audience ap-praisingly through horn-rimmed glasses and began: "You're not going to like anything I say, but I don't care, so long as you listen...
...parlor in Washington's Hotel Statler, eight frazzled negotiators sat silent for minutes at a time, pulling on cigars or cigarettes and staring morosely into space. On streamlined, shocking-pink armchairs sat the stubborn coal operators: George Love, Joseph Moody, Harvey Cartwright, Harry Moses; the stubborn miners: Thomas Kennedy, John Owens, William Mitch. On a pea-green sofa sat the grandiloquent John L. Lewis...
Four women and ten men, pleasantly warned by some of the Hotel Statler's better martinis, had seated themselves in a half-circle around Lilienthal who was tilted comfortably back against a wall. "In these lectures I'm going back to the place where we start thinking," he said. "By my demeanor, and by what I say, I hope to indicate the optimism I feel...
Jordan, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and head football coach at Amherst, checked in at the Hotel Statler yesterday afternoon. He could not be reached there, but as of early this morning he had not checked...
...Despite the confusion and the roaring babble set off by the throngs on the floor and in the galleries, dinner was deftly served. To the unconcealed awe of all, the filet mignon was hot when it arrived. The food had been prepared in the kitchens of the Mayflower and Statler Hotels and had been rushed to the armory in special heater-equipped trucks. An army of 625 waiters was on hand to serve it. The serving-men were drilled as meticulously as a troop of light cavalry and they were controlled by an intricate traffic-light system: when the lights...