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in Chicago, the Pierre Hotel grill in New York, with its marvelous scenes of feasting through the ages, Mrs. Mary Lasker's New York home, and too many other establishments to enumerate. He had great taste and great ability. More important, he was a cultured, highly civilized human being. He was the complete sophisticate, urbane, witty, a delightful conversationalist, equipped with an endless fund of anecdotes, in many of which he was the butt of the joke. One, however, pivoted on Frank Lloyd Wright.

Sam said that he, Mr. Wright and Edward Durrell Stone were dining together one night in New York. Conversation, when Mr. Wright took charge, often zig-zagged into exotic fields. I have mentioned his discourse on elephants. In this case, he chose to talk about American Indians, and specifically, the different facial characteristics of the different tribes. On the