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One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the ¡¡36¡¡ , the couple went to the front desk hoping to¡¡ 37 for the night.
¡°Could you ¡¡38¡¡ ¡¡give us a room here?¡± the husband asked.
The clerk, a ¡¡39¡¡ ¡¡man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and ¡¡40¡¡ that there were three conventions(´ó»á) in town.
¡°All of our ¡¡41¡¡ ¡¡are taken,¡± the clerk said. ¡°But I can¡¯t send a ¡¡42¡¡ ¡¡couple like you 43¡¡ ¡¡into the rain at 1 o¡¯clock in the morning. Would you please be ¡¡44¡¡ ¡¡to sleep in my room? It¡¯s not exactly a suite(Ì×·¿), but it will be good enough to make you¡¡ ¡¡45¡¡ ¡¡for the night.¡±
The couple said no politely.
¡°Don¡¯t ¡¡46¡¡ me. It is just fine with me,¡± the clerk told them.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, ¡°You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I¡¯ll build ¡¡47¡¡ ¡¡for you.¡± The three of them had a good ¡¡48¡¡ .
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten it ¡¡49¡¡ ¡¡he received a letter from the old man. It recalled that stormy night and put in a round-trip ¡¡50¡¡ ¡¡to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit. The old man met him in New York, and ¡¡51¡¡ him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.
He then pointed to a great new ¡¡52¡¡ ¡¡there, a palace of reddish stone. ¡°That,¡± said the older man, ¡°is the hotel I have just built for you to ¡¡53¡¡ .¡±
¡°You must be ¡¡54¡¡ ,¡± the young man said.
¡°I am sure I am not,¡± said the old man, the name of ¡¡55¡¡ was William Waldorf Astor, and the magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk, George C. Boldt became its first manager.
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