Mr. Bard cited just one, in 1988: the portrait painter Alphaeus Cole, who lived to be 112. When Timur Cimkentli, a photographer, owed back rent, Mr. Bard hired him as a bellman. Mr. Bard was replaced as the Chelsea’s managing partner in 2007 by descendants of the other original investors. Arthur Miller, in his Granta article, remembered when the grit in his hotel room carpet had gotten so deep that he erupted in a rage over the phone. “‘Truthfully, there is no otherwise — all I am is a man waiting desperately for a vacuum cleaner.’ And he would laugh,” Mr. Miller wrote, “grateful for another happy tenant.”

Source: New York Times February 15, 2017 00:00 UTC