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...Gazette, he still owns. Today he also has minor interests in an advertising firm, the Churngold (margarine) Corp., American Thermos Bottle, Procter & Gamble, the Reds and the Garden. Besides the Lancaster newspaper, he controls Dayton's WING and Springfield's WIZE radio stations, and Cincinnati's Coney Island. Its Shooting Star roller coaster is the fastest ride in the state of Ohio...
...Town's pace slows noticeably only once: toward the end, a clumsily inserted (though well designed and danced) ballet recapitulates most of the story. After that, things pick right up with a lively chase across the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island...
...taking advantage of a fellow from out West." (They weren't; Hilton now regretfully estimates the Ritz to be worth at least $2,500,000.) Instead, for $300,000, he bought control of the Roosevelt, which bustles with salesmen and is as different from the Town House as Coney Island is from Beverly Hills. The Roosevelt deal established Hilton in New York and got him the backing he wanted from such moneybags as Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium. With the help of Odium, Hilton paid out $7,400,000 for New York's stately old Plaza, which...
...Coney by the Arno. During the past month, the party had carried on a national fund-raising campaign for the Italian Communist press. Florence's four-day Fèsta dell' Unità (sponsored by the Communist daily Unità) was the grand finale. For weeks, 200 workmen had labored to build a kind of Marxist Coney Island...
Bargain. In Coney Island, N.Y., Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate persuaded a mother to keep her children out of a neighbor's garden, on condition that the neighbor stop setting out poison ivy plants...