Word: willard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others include versatile eight-letterman Isadore Zarakov '27, track stars Willard Tibbetts '26 and Ellsworth Haggerty '27, Arthur Conlon '22, a three-year baseball letterman. Ned Bigelow '21, coach and star of the hockey team, and gridder R. Keith Kane '22, also of the 1920 Rose Bowl squad, and now a member of the Harvard Corporation...
...JOHN WILLARD Cambridge, Mass...
Like the Plumbing. The original Willard's City Hotel was the work of two canny Vermonters, Henry and Joseph Willard. In 1850 Washington was a rough, provincial town of muddy streets and boarding houses. Henry Willard took over a row of small houses at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Within a decade, he made his hostelry the city's social and political clubhouse -partly because there was nothing better, partly because of the Lucullan table he set. At an 1859 banquet for the departing British ambassador, Willard's offered up pheasants, venison, prairie hens, Virginia hams, lobsters...
...turn of the century, Joseph Willard's son had the old five-story building torn down and replaced with a twelve-floor, 450-room French Second Empire structure. With its gilt and marble fixtures, the new Willard was a more refined version of the old. When Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice would light up a cigarette in the main dining room, waiters would hurriedly put a screen around her table...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, now 84, fondly recalls the Willard's cotillions. But over the years the tradition, like the plumbing, began to corrode. Newer and better hotels opened. The automobile made it unnecessary to be a five-minute walk from the offices of power. The riots that flared last spring in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination and the disruptions caused by the Poor People's Campaign virtually emptied the Willard of tourists. Last week the management, having lost $1,250,000 since 1965 and unable to meet its bills, abruptly shut down what Sandburg...