The Ritz it wasn’t, but for nearly fifty years the Ambassador had something no other Washington hotel could offer: an almost Olympic-size indoor swimming pool. It attracted the likes of Jack Kennedy, who sometimes swam there in his Senate days, and Florence Chadwick, who trained there for her record-breaking swims across the English Channel.
Pity the poor soul who’s doing PR these days for John Coleman, the owner of Washington’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Must be something like trying to get toothpaste back in the tube. First came a front-page story in The Washington Post saying, in so many words, that Coleman’s creditors consider him a deadbeat deluxe. Then came another blast of bad ink in