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...John Tremont, 52, an American-born painter living in France, flies to Los Angeles after learning of his mother's heart attack. He finds her in a serious but stable condition; his father worries him more. At age 72, Dad has sunk into a lethargy that borders on inertia. Tremont sets him some routine household chores, then coaxes him into the outside world, and the old man begins to show sparks of vitality: "You get in the habit of working and then forget how to have fun." After a minor operation, however, Dad slides into senility. Tremont brings...
Instead, the patient regains his mind as suddenly as he lost it. He becomes, for a while, an overage hippie, buying off-beat costumes at the Salvation Army and riding on the back of a motorcycle with his son. Tremont's sister and daughter, who both live near by, bask in this sunny remission; his son Billy, a college dropout, shows up and is equally delighted. After a lifetime spent working at factory jobs he hated, Dad is finally enjoying himself. The only one unhappy about all this is Mom, who fears that her husband of 50 years...
...Tremont theater is now an obstacle course of rods, wires, wood, and cement, as workers install newly upholstered orchestra seats and enclose the new stage house, which is partially open to Stuart...
...Chicago the antique-filled Tremont and Whitehall, both with fewer than 230 rooms and opened within the past six years, are doing so well that there is plenty of business left over for two newcomers, the year-old Raphael and the Mayfair Regent, due to open this fall. Chicago Hotelier John Coleman, who owns the Tremont, the Whitehall and Washington's Fairfax and is renovating Manhattan's Navarro for a fall reopening, has a simple guiding philosophy: make the well-heeled traveler "feel at home...
...class or writing about something or doing just about anything except fucking." He thinks of the Scots attacking Rommel in North Africa in a nighttime raid, using bagpipes to freeze the Germans with stark fear, and wonders, "Maybe we needed kazoos, ten thousand blood-curdling kazooers marching down Tremont...