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...West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...
Huey's onetime boy friends, Mayor Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother...
When he died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
These and other innovations to win friends and influence people are the work of John Marvin Yost, a local boy who went into the bank 21 years ago and married a distant relative of its founder, Hotelman James Hatcher. Banker Yost, whose extracurricular activities include a model "Chick Manor" complete with running water and radio, launched his stunts one by one on First National's conservative directors. He says they "have tolerated, me because they . . . know I am honest, with one thing in mind: to run a good bank and make money." Last week Banker Yost rejoiced that deposits...