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...last week a bald paunchy septuagenarian marched briskly out of the Treasury Department and into a banquet spread for him by his friends at Washington's Hotel Carlton. That march and meal ended the 49-year-long government career of the man whose name is carved on the cornerstones of more post offices, customs houses, federal court houses and office buildings than that of any other U. S. citizen...
...pianist. In Manhattan she founded the Verdi Society to keep the name of the composer alive. Her father was a rich Wilkes-Barre lawyer who died 25 years ago. Mrs. Jenkins is well able to pay for a hall. Last week she hired the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and smartly-dressed New Yorkers fairly fought for tickets to get in and see Florence Foster Jenkins perform...
...London's Carlton and Ritz were represented by Director Reginald Charles Vaughan, who used to be Comptroller of the Refreshment Department of the House of Lords and originated, the idea of improvement classes for waitresses...
...last week Mr. Freeman installed himself at the Ritz-Carlton with a telephone and a great stack of U. S. currency at his elbow. Cables streamed in from London with instructions, betting odds. One after another ticket-holders shambled into his office, nervous, undecided, wanting to haggle. Mr. Freeman remained cool, crisp, firm as ever his father had been. "Take it or leave it. That's the price now and we may not be buying tickets on that horse later...
...suite at the Ritz-Carlton newshawks found Sidney Freeman with a headache. He was busy now offering cash to prize-winners who would otherwise have to wait months for their money from overseas. He would pay $145,000 for a $150,000 ticket. Asked if he had bought any tickets on the winner, he remarked cheerfully, "I thought I had one, but I found I hadn't. Well, we take a loss of about $150,000. It does not matter so much. . . . I'll be back in January...