Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan's latest watering hole is hidden away in the basement of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel behind a heavy wooden door with only a discreet brass name plate to identify it. Designer Cecil Beaton has maintained the speakeasy image by decking the joint out with dark red and green wallpaper and gleaming brass fixtures, plus just a hint of modern psychedelia in the lights flashing across the dining-room ceiling. But not everybody can get into Raffles merely by rapping on the door and whispering, "Joe sent me." It costs $500 to join, another $350 a year in dues...
Ever since television first flickered into life, it has attracted an ever-enlarging audience. The number of knob twisters dwarfs the circulation lists of even the largest magazine. In a speech before magazine promotion men at New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan Adman Fairfax M. Cone (Foote. Cone & Belding) had some blunt words for magazines tempted to play the numbers game against the one-eyed monster of the marketplace. Cone's advice...