Word: book
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Full Life. By that time the bargains were fast going up in price in the postwar boom. Hilton decided to consolidate his gains and let a biographer, who had been busily trying to keep up with the fast-moving life of Hilton, get out his book under the title The Man Who Bought the Plaza. Two months ago, with 7,500 copies already printed, the title had to be changed to The Man Who Bought the Waldorf. Now, says Hilton solemnly, "I've promised myself not to buy any more hotels until the book comes...
...Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full life without ever going out of doors. They have nightclubs, banquet halls and shopping centers. You can read a book in the library and use the safe deposit vault as a bank. If you get sick, there's a hospital, with a doctor and a nurse. You can park your car, eat your head off and sleep till noon. Home was never like that...
Faulkner's book suggested that the North, East and West should leave Southerners alone to work out their own redemption for mistreating the Negro. The Faulknerian message is left out of a movie that could have stood almost any sort of clear social comment...
...Radcliffe yesterday, library directors echoed Metcalf's statement that Annex book stacks are adequate. "We're making a concerted effort this year to order even more course books, but it all takes time and the girls must be patient," one official said...
...Radcliffe won't be allowed in Lamont in the morning because, said Metclaf, "we'd get ourselves in all kinds of messes, especially book collections, if we opened the building to the girls at one time and not at another...