Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in 1939 disgruntled bondholders got Jumbo a new trainer, Joseph Patterson Binns. Instead of writing Jumbo off as too big to work, Joey Binns gave it jobs for which it was best suited. He installed a production-line system in the enormous laundry, saved $25,000 a year. He...
With 1,385 hotels and 143,000 rooms to offer, Chicago became the white herd's favorite watering hole. Its Jumbo was the Stevens, "World's Largest Hotel." Built in 1927, the Stevens has 3,000 rooms (one man could spend eight years in it without twice sleeping...
The Stevens Hotel came out of reorganization in 1936 with its bonded indebtedness cut to some $6,000,000. But it still had 3,000 rooms, and about half of them were vacant. Not until 1937 did the Stevens begin paying anything to holders of its 5% income debentures. By...
At 35, handsome Joey Binns is an old hand at hotel trouble shooting. Born of Quaker parents in Winona, Ohio, he de cided at ten to become a hotel man, got his first job as a storeroom boy. As man ager of Stevens, he draws down $25,000 a year...
A notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore...