The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel Pool
Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
For forty-two years, from the time he discovered the hotel in 1950, until it closed last December 30th, Irving's days had been as well ordered and as predictable as the Sun King's.