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Article: Chicago Tribune Real Estate Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- June 23, 2002
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Byline: Mary Umberger
Jun. 23--NEW YORK--Anybody who doesn't understand how real estate can be a branch of show business ought to stand next to Donald Trump in the lobby of Trump World Tower as he goes on and on about all things Donald.
From the bidets that he insisted be included in all the condos in that building ("for the European buyers") to the critical pounding that he has taken for his plans for a tower in Chicago ("What's the matter with the Chicago Tribune, anyway?" he asks), Trump is Daddy Warbucks stepping off the Twentieth Century Limited, and certainly knows it.
Recently he swept into his building's marble-clad lobby in Manhattan ...