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...world's richest university last week became the owner of one of the world's supposedly swankest hotels. The late Robert Walton Goelet ('02), Manhattan real estate tycoon, bequeathed to Harvard Manhattan's 31-year-old Ritz-Carlton (assessed value: $3,675,000). Harvard will operate the hotel, give Harvard men (and others) an opportunity to advance education by stopping there...
...brink of Europe, facing Asia across the shimmering Bosporus, the Hill of Pera is crowned by one of the swankest old hotels in the world. It is Istanbul's famed Hotel Pera Palace, chuck-full of faded tapestries and the queerest collection of Victorian rocking chairs, settees and oversize bathroom fixtures this side of Bombay. Last week a rattletybang little streetcar jammed with Turks was just careening around a curve in front of the Pera Palace when a great belch of flame and smoke pushed out the whole first floor of the hotel with a crunching, grunting roar. Against...
Three weeks ago, in Atlantic City, he gathered 60-odd youths and 20 maidens he had picked for his Youth Orchestra, started rehearsing them night & day, at $50 apiece a week. Atlantic City's Mayor Thomas D. Taggart Jr. gave them free lodgings at the city's swankest hotels. To season his unbaked orchestra, Stokowski added the merest pinch (18 men) of experienced Philadelphia Orchestra men, thus reducing its 100% U. S. content by about 1%. By the time he was through rehearsing he had fired a couple of woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient...
Canada's Laurentians. less famed for downhill running than for cross-country touring, are fast becoming popular with U. S. skiers. Newest and swankest Laurentian rendezvous is Mont Tremblant, which celebrated its first birthday last month...
When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera was put on a permanent basis in 1892, the Metropolitan Opera House was bought for $1,425,000 by 35 members of New York's swankest families. From them the Opera Company leased the building to produce its operas in. In payment for this lease the Company allowed its 35 landlords to occupy the 35 first-tier boxes of the Opera House (the "Diamond Horseshoe") at an annual assessment that reached a high last year...