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What she got, besides that: a chariot ride to the circus, behind four "Arabian stallions"; a ride on an elephant; lunch at the Colony; tea with Cinemactor Ray Milland at the Waldorf Towers; dinner at the Stork Club; champagne at El Morocco; a night at the Ritz Tower (she telephoned everybody she knew in New York to come over for drinks); backstage calls on Fredric March and Beatrice Lillie; an armful of roses, a $125,000 ruby necklace (for 24 hours), a $65 hat (for keeps), and "the works" in a beauty parlor...
After several weeks in the bush ("a devilish shrub . . . chest high and thickly matted together, it is covered with sharp thorns half an inch long"), Tweed and his friend Al Tyson moved into a hole in a hillside that was "practically the Waldorf-Astoria." And a native friend brought them a radio. But a search party soon drove them...
...papers for himself. As Davis deals go, these were small: he took over the Spartanburg (S.C.) Herald and Journal, in Jimmy Byrnes's home town, for $750,000. But this time, said Davis, there was no mystery about his business. In his plush suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Tower, he reassured anxious friends that he was still a salesman, had not suddenly started to scratch a journalistic itch. He had simply found an able young newspaperman to go partners with and do the editing (fellow Clevelander William Townes, 35, a Nieman fellow and former assistant city editor...
...disconcerting period in his career, Hollywood Big Shot Nicholas M. Schenck took a $50,000 bundle of bills to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, dropped it on the bed and looked out the window. Other Hollywood tycoons got into the same strange habit. Somehow or other, Willie Bioff, a pimp turned labor racketeer, was always there to scoop up the bundles, split them with a fellow scofflaw, George Browne, president of the A.F. of L. Stage and Movie Operators Union. Willie and George acted for a gang of Chicago mobsters. The motion-picture industry thus parted with a million...
Mary Ellin Berlin, 17, brunette, bright-eyed daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...