"Mick" Mannock v.c. was, according tothe author, the supreme air fighter of all nations. He was ihe finest air tactician and patrol leader and the most ruthless fighter of the War, he emphasizes. He recounts many stories of Mannock's daring deeds and of his mysterious death. Describing his experiences in North Russia the author severely criticizes the White Russian fighters with whom he fought against the Bolshe-vis. With the exception of one officer—a Colonel Kosikoft—he describes the rest as not being worth a "pinch of salt."
Cesar Ritz, Host 10 THe worp By Marie Ritz. Harrop, London.
Cesar Ritzs wife has written one of the most readable: biographies recently published, on the subject of [her husband, the hotel manager par excellence and the one who established hotels which were to become famous all over the world. It is the story of a man who started at the very bottom of the ladder and worked himself up til be became the friend and confidant of princes, of a man who had worked in small restaurant learning all the while io manage the big ones.
Ritz in the modelling of his hotels adopted Disraeli's slogan of "Sanitas, sanitatum, amnia sanita" for in no spect did he sac Until 1898 when the Hotel Ritz was opened in Paris the Hotel was the last word in luxury.
it possessed one bathroom to floor, and Edward VII, then Prince of W 5, when he stayed there, he invariably did fo. over forty years, when he transferred his patronage to the Ritz, was compelled to have his baths sent in to him by the "Bath-at-home Service" which would bring on carts huge tanks of hot water, a tub and al! the necessaries. The Ritz changed all that by providing a bathroom for each apartment. The heavy plushes and velvets had disappeared from the windows, and only muslins which could be washed, light silks that could be easily cleaned—germ-collecting wallpaper had followed the plush into the limbo of forgotten things—and painted walls took their place. It hardly any wonder that the innovations aroused much enthusiasm, and it has been claimed, probably with some degree of justice that Cesar Ritz was a great civilizing influence in his time with regard to sanitation and hygiene in hotels,
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