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...toughest fights of Midwesterner Kirkeby's nine-year career as a hotelman, and the stakes were high: control of Manhattan's 375-room Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Sharply at 10 a.m., big, confident Mr. Kirkeby arrived at 14 Wall Street for the annual meeting of Sherneth Corp., which owns the Sherry-Netherland...
More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies last week. Little of it was Dutch. Their troops hovered in ships off Java's great naval base of Surabaya. Ashore, British casualties went over 300, Indonesian over...
Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Papers in a lawsuit (now settled) showed that the Archduke had his own rooms there at half price and earned a 5 to 10% commission on the rents paid by guests he brought in (one was Glandmaster Serge Voronoff) But the war boom in the hotel busines broke it all up. The Archduke got a job with a brokerage house, moved across the street to the Savoy-Plaza...
Benton spoke at Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland Plaza, where the American Institute of Architects and the Producers' Council (building equipment manufacturers) last week gave a joint annual-convention banquet. Said he to the builders: 1) "Every policy of business that restricts employment or production should be re-examined"; 2) the building industry is "notorious" as the No.1 practicer of "every form of so-called monopolistic practices"; 3) it is also the kingpin of all industries in the economy of the U.S., because it normally accounts for half the nation's total new capital formation...
...plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines of a newspaper, spied a pretty girl, promptly proposed, was promptly turned down. When the police arrived, he grabbed...