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Serge Obolensky - Wikipedia

When Obolensky was president of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Tarsaidze became his assistant. Tarsaidze later wrote a novel about the parents of Obolensky's first wife, Alexander II and Catherine Dolgorukov. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Obo…

The site had been occupied since the early 1890s by the Hotel New Netherland, designed by William Hume for William Waldorf Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family. The building that was to replace it would occupy the same footprint and frontage on Fifth Avenue.

The Sherry-Netherland was built in 1927 and features a restored ceiling mural in the lobby based on Raphael’s Vatican frescoes.
Building amenities include hotel service, daily maid service, access to the gym and hair salon, valet parking and room service from Harry Cipriani.

In 1919, she was hired as a writer by childhood friend Edward L. Bernays. They married in 1922 at City Hall. Immediately after the wedding, she signed into the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel using her maiden name. This was considered extremely unusual and the story made headlines

the next morning. She also traveled to Europe, and before doing so, had a passport issued to her under her maiden name. She was the first American woman to do so. Fleischman later became an active member in the Lucy Stone League, which empowered women and urged them to keep their

maiden names after marriage. After her marriage to Bernays in 1922, Fleischman became an equal partner within the firm. In 1946, she became the vice president of the newly created Edward L. Bernays Foundation. Among her accomplishments were an internal client publication Contact

(which explained the nature and value of public relations to clients) and securing press coverage for the NAACP convention in Atlanta.[2] This convention in particular was extremely important, as it was the first to ever be held below the Mason-Dixon line. At the conference,

Fleischman experienced discrimination and threats of violence based on her gender, but continued to work to have southern press agencies cover the conference, a difficult feat at the time. She also proved herself by going on to work with important clients like Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Sigmund Freud, Jane Addams, Irene Castle, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas A. Edison. In 1950, Fleischman was contacted by Ruth Hale, founder of the Lucy Stone League, to help revive her organization which had been inactive for almost two decades following its

founding in 1921. Upon the revival of the League, Fleischman served as its vice president and worked with other women who were pioneers in their fields such as Jane Grant, Doris Stevens, Anna M. Kross, and Fannie Hurst. Together, they worked to conduct research about women's

pay and women's position in the American economy.[9] In 1952, Fleischman was invited by the director Fleischman moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband in 1962 so that he could finish writing his book and they could retire together. However, these retirement plans

did not last, and Fleischman and Bernays continued to work after they sold their New York office to establish a new public relations business in Cambridge. Upon the establishment of their new "public relations counsel," as Bernays called it, they gained many new clients

including the U.S. Department of Commerce; the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the West Valley Community College; and the Massachusetts Law Association. Brzezinski became a naturalized American citizen in 1958.[18]
In 1959, Harvard awarded an associate

professorship to Henry Kissinger instead of Brzezinski.[7] He then moved to New York City to teach at Columbia University.[16] Here he wrote Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, which focused on Eastern Europe since the beginning of the Cold War. He also taught future Secretary of

State Madeleine Albright, who, like Brzezinski's widow Emily, is of Czech descent, and who he also mentored during her early years in Washington.[19] He also became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and joined the Bilderberg Group. U.S. Realty continued to

lose money through the 1930s, and was selling off its properties by 1942, including the Plaza Hotel.[89] Atlas Corporation, collaborating with hotelier Conrad Hilton, bought the Plaza Hotel for $7.4 million in October 1943. The Plaza, along with the rest of the Westin chain,[252]

were transferred to the Aoki Corporation and Robert M. Bass in January 1988.[The Plaza was sold to real estate developer Donald Trump in March 1988 following a handshake agreement After gaining title to the hotel that July, Trump appointed his wife Ivana as the hotel's president.

By 1994, Trump was looking to sell the Plaza before Citibank and other creditors could find a buyer, thereby wiping out his investment; one of his executives identified Hong Kong-based Sun Hung Kai Properties as a potential buyer. The deal fell through after the family of

Sun Hung Kai executive Walter Kwok got trapped behind a jammed door while touring the Plaza Hotel. Trump sold the controlling stake to Kwek and Al-Waleed in April 1995.

Katara Hospitality acquired full ownership of the Plaza Hotel in July 2018 after buying Sahara's, and Askenazy and Kingdom's, stakes. Katara Hospitality was first formed in 1970 as Qatar National Hotels Limited (QNH). In 1973, Marriott Hotel, then known as Gulf Hotel and owned by

QNH, became the country's five-star hotel.[6] In 1993, this company was replaced by Qatar Nationals Hotel Company.[7] Eventually, in 2012, QNH was rebranded under its current form, Katara Hospitality.[8] 'Katara' derives its name from the common spelling used for 'Qatar' by

ancient cartographers.