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...hotel chain, was run pretty much as the private, if not always profitable, satrapy of Co-Founder Ernest Henderson. After Henderson's death two months ago, the chain passed to his son, Ernest Henderson III, 43, as president and chief executive, and longtime Henderson Financial Adviser Richard Boonisar, 60, as chairman. Along with the changeover came rumors that Sheraton was ripe for acquisition if the right offer came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Room at the Inns | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Sheraton and its 129 U.S. hotels and motels, together with 25 overseas, should fit nicely into ITT's "consumer services" group, which already includes Avis, Airport Parking Co. and 16 Holiday Inn franchises. For the time being, at least, Geneen will let Henderson and Boonisar run his 45th acquisition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Room at the Inns | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...privacy, Geneen, Boonisar and aides carried on negotiations in a suite of Boston's non-Sheraton Somerset Hotel. Negotiations over, Geneen got a firsthand idea of how booming was his new business; at 1 a.m., with the suite's beds spoken for, not a hotel room was to be had in Boston. "To hell with it," snapped the new innkeeper, who then flew back to his New York apartment aboard an ITT Gulfstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Room at the Inns | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...fortunate. Many, like Richards H. Crawford, went through "several years of minor odd jobs with liberal stretches at leisure." Warren W. Anthony "searched in vain for two long years for a job connected with radio. There was not an opening anywhere during those depression years." And Richard Boonisar in the five years after graduation "changed jobs three times as the financial world and its values crashed all around...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: 1929: Born 'n Bred in a Briar Patch | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

Hans Neudorf, physical culture expert, will take the part of "The Wrestler" in the play. In addition to Mr. Neudorf, there is Ricard Boonisar '29, a pure blooded Assyrian, who will teach the cast how to pronounce difficult Arabian names. The pronunciation of such words as "eyewallah", "istagfarrulah", "marshalla", and "saleikum" puzzled the play-producers and began to loom up as an unsurmountable obstacle, until the bio-linguist Boonisar was discovered. He came to the aid of the perplexed actors, and for the past week has been drilling the cast of "Hassan" it the intricacies of oriental speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB SIGNS ON STRONG MAN AND LINGUIST | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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