Word: wardman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Democratic Senator Herbert H. Lehman said farewell to suburban ease. Since he went to the Senate in 1949, he has been living with Mrs. Lehman in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel and a Manhattan apartment, has had little time to spend on the 75-acre, Purchase, N.Y. estate which had been his home since 1921. Last week realtors announced that the Lehmans had sold the estate, their 19-room Tudor mansion and all the fixings (asking price: $150,000) to a chain-store owner. Some of the fixings : a sun room overlooking Long Island Sound...
SHERATON Corp.'s President Ernest Henderson, who buys and sells hotels so fast that he is never quite sure how many he owns, bought control of two more: Washington's 300-room Carlton, a monument to old-fashioned elegance, and the 1,300-room Wardman Park, biggest in the capital. Price, including an interest in an apartment house and an office building...
...never attempted to play the grande dame. During World War II, she was ailing and lived quietly at Washing ton's Wardman Park Hotel. Her social attributes are amiability, a gift for small talk, an ability to put people at ease and to draw them out. She can talk to total strangers as if they were old friends. But the Eisenhower campaign of 1952 demonstrated that Mamie also has a tremendous ability to rise to occasions and an almost startling gift for communicating her charm to the public. Some dubious Ike supporters thought. Mamie might be a drawback...
When Ike skyrocketed to power and responsibility in World War II, Mamie stayed out of the limelight, and settled down in Washington's Wardman Park Hotel. She sat out the war playing mahjong and pooling meat-ration coupons with seven other war-separated generals' wives. They had dinner together almost every night. Mamie did not take her turn at cooking, but she always washed the dishes. After the war, in New York, Washington, Paris, Mamie stayed on in the background, and her friends predict that if she goes to the White House, she will still avoid the spotlight...
...Show in Washington. TV engineers, who had learned their lessons during Harry Truman's inauguration in 1949 when they tried to cover too much ground with their cameras, this time had only five pick-up spots. All shots were fed to a master control room at the Wardman Park Hotel, carried by coaxial cable to New York, where they were siphoned off to the networks and then fed back to Washington TV sets. This meant that images Washingtonians saw on their screens had to travel from Washington to New York and back (estimated time for the trip: one-454th...