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Modest Proposal. In St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat ran an advertisement: "Help wanted. Cigaret Girl - Gypsy Inn, 1100 S. Eighth. East St. Louis, Ill.; must bring own cigarets." Sidetracked. In Los Angeles...
...historic Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, he skipped his usual Sunday church service, strolled in the warm sun, poked around the old town. He did some work in his room in the Williamsburg Inn, left Monday afternoon...
Five-Room Start. When Connie Hilton was 16, he was managing a five-room inn for traveling salesmen over his father's general store in San Antonio, Socorio County, N. Mex. (pop. 760). The rent money put him through college. At 21, Hilton was elected to New Mexico's House of Representatives. He enlisted with the break of World War I, became an Army lieutenant, and fought in France...
...mauve Noel Coward also sang till his pipes cracked, but he found ample time to comment on life in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Bits of Middle East Diary have the peculiar flavor of "My Day" ("Today I drove into Spain . . . and lunched out-of-doors at a little inn called Miraflores...
...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...