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Last week the Miami Beach city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million.
* Convicted last week of criminal contempt for violating a 1949 antitrust judgment requiring him to sell 39 of his more than 100 movie houses. A Buffalo District Court ruled that instead of a bona fide sale, Schine Enterprises "sold" the theaters to its affiliated companies.