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...sharp rebuff. "I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album must've been," Springsteen speculated at a Pittsburgh concert. "I don't think he's been listening to this one," he added, tearing into a ripsaw version of Johnny 99, about an unemployed factory worker who shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man/ But it was more 'n all this that put the gun in/ my hand...
...most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant than it was to become after the Civil War. Flagrant anti-Semitism of the sort familiar to 20th century Americans was born (or at least blurted forth) in Saratoga, N.Y., in 1877, when fashionable Hotel Manager Henry Hilton turned away Investment Banker Joseph Seligman and publicly announced: "No Israelites shall be permitted in the future...
...Atlanta in 1895, the son of old money (cotton). Midway through Haverford College, in 1916, he collapsed, mentally and physically. "Slipping joints" was prominent among his litany of miseries, and his search for osteopathic relief led him to Boston. Eventually he settled into Garrison Hall , a seven-story residential hotel in St. Botolph Street. Back then it was the sort of place where you could hire a room and a woman instead of having lunch...
...downfall may come from a more expensive kind of kick: cocaine. Last week Fox, the chairman of Greenwich, Conn.-based Iroquois Brands (1984 sales: $142 million), pleaded innocent to charges of possessing $8,000 worth of cocaine. Police arrested the executive, 47, and a female companion in a Hartford hotel earlier this month after the officers allegedly spotted the drug lying openly on a bed. Police claim they also found equipment used to smoke the substance, a process called free-basing that produces an intense high. Hotel workers became suspicious of Fox partly because he registered under a false name...
More than three years after Comedian John Belushi died of an overdose in a Hollywood hotel, Cathy Evelyn Smith, the woman who has admitted that she injected Belushi with the fatal drugs, was ordered to stand trial last week for second-degree murder in Los Angeles. Municipal Court Judge James Nelson rejected arguments that Smith was merely a hireling who carried out Belushi's wishes. Said he: "Surely, Mr. Belushi issued the invitation to the dance. But it was an inherently dangerous dance...