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...Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME March...
...Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March...
...innkeeper's daughter, and none of the big shots dazzled her. To little Margaret Case, the celebrities who hung around father Frank Case's celebrated Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan were just a lot of gabby customers. Doug Fairbanks Sr., who had just made his first picture, was a real pal and used to skip rope with her on the roof. But the bunch that ate lunch together almost every day, at a round table in the Rose Room, had little time for her; they were too busy trying to top each other's wisecracks...
...Texas-to-Buffalo line, fan it through New England over a 529-mile system at a total investment of $140 million. Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, which controls about half the manufactured gas supply of New England, at first opposed the natural gas invasion; then it took part in forming Algonquin Gas Transmission Co. to distribute natural gas from Symonds' biggest rival, Texas Eastern Transmission Corp...
...first tried to get the two rivals to combine into a single system. Failing in this, FPC last week authorized Northeastern to serve a large part of the market it had staked out. Algonquin, it said, would get the right to serve the remaining area once it proves it has the gas. Under this Solomon-like verdict, enterprising Northeastern gets roughly 54% of the estimated New England natural-gas market, Algonquin the remaining 46%. Both companies expected to begin selling their natural gas by next fall. Neither could start too soon to suit New England, where lack of natural...