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...eight-room suite???which boasts a private elevator, a main salon (where the U.N. charter was drafted in 1945), four fireplaces, three bedrooms with gold-fixtured baths and a dome-topped library with secret passage?can be reserved on a no-frills basis for $5,000 a night. The new, record price is for a holiday package that includes three chauffeured Rolls-Royces, a dinner for 20 with strolling violinists, round-the-clock butler and chambermaid service, private bartender, free-flowing beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon champagne, and breakfast in bed. Checkout time, please note, is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...talk about politics. She was in the U. S., she said, merely as "a grateful woman." The Monday Opera Club, an organization which provides titled guests for wealthy U. S. hostesses, arranged entertainments for her. On her first night in town, there was an informal dinner in her suite???the guests including Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Princess Cantacuzene-Speransky, Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. After dinner, the party went to the Jolson Theatre?minus Mrs. Vanderbilt, who rushed off, apologizing. Later, the Duchess beamed at a school of wriggling debutantes at the Colony Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal Arrival | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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