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...last week, the planetarium had received more than 18,000 reservations and requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Away From It All | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...profits. Chief arranger, money-raiser and promoter for the company is President Wallace Whittaker, 58, who joined I.H.C. after 18 years as general manager of General Motors' Inland (rubber & plastic products) Division. Chief operator is Byron Calhoun, 48, a one-time bellhop who became part owner of Minneapolis' Radisson Hotel (he sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Girdling the World | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Author Willingham went on to have an adolescent's daydream. Geraldine Brad-show, his second novel, is a 415-page, grab-by-grab description of how a smart bellhop tries to seduce a dumb-Dora elevator girl. It takes time: boy gets girl in bed on page 141; but girl is still standing off boy on page 414. The Willingham method is, of course, one way to keep a reader's attention. Nonetheless,the author sometimes seems hard put to fill space: "You come by here around six. All right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adolescent's Daydream | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Divorced. By Gladys George, 45, platinum-blonde actress of stage (Personal Appearance) and screen (Madame X): Kenneth C. Bradley, 36, Los Angeles bellhop, her fourth husband; after 3½ years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...crack team which includes Executive Vice President Robert P. Williford, 49, who started as a desk clerk in 1931; Vice President James B. ("J.B.") Herndon Jr., 50, who was the first manager of the Albuquerque Hilton; Vice President Spearl ("Red") Ellison, 36, who started as a $5-a-month bellhop; Vice President Joseph P. Binns, 43, a relative newcomer to the corporation, who managed the Stevens before Hilton took over. Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first marriage, Eric, 16, and Baron, 21, are not in the business). Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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