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...rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world's biggest hotelman, was ready to open his newest and plushest hotel: the $17 million, 450-room Beverly Hilton. Beamed Hilton: "This will be the biggest hotel opening in the history of the business...
...brewery's annual production from a trickle to 25,000 bbls. within eight years. He also began brewing Budweiser after a tour of Europe. According to the apocryphal story, Adolphus got the secret formula of the famed brew of a monastery. Actually, he developed the formula with Carl Conrad, a St. Louis restaurateur, tried to match the light beer he found in the Bohemian town of Budweis. He felt that it would become more popular in the U.S. than the heavy beer then being made. He was the first big brewer to perfect refrigerated railroad cars, thus opening vast...
...moving on to bigger and better things, Sonnabend's syndicate paid Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950) $8,000,000 for the Cleveland real estate once owned by the Van Sweringens, including the Hotel Cleveland. Later, it bought Manhattan's Plaza for $15 million from Conrad Hilton. Says Sonnabend: "We are going to try to maintain it as the finest hotel in the world. It will be our flagship...
...dangerous is radioactive fallout? At last week's Atlantic City meeting of the American Medical Association. Commander Robert A. Conrad of the Naval Medical Research Institute reported on the Marshall Islanders who were exposed to moderate fallout from the great test explosion in the Pacific on March 1. 1954. Talking to physicians, he did not prettify. The most intensive study was made of 64 Marshallese whose island got the heaviest fallout. Hours after the detonation. a snowlike material fell from the sky. It whitened their hair and clung to their skins. At first it had no ill effect...
Answer: I have as many as I have moods: Keats, Shelley, Browning, Mark Twain, Shaw, Conrad, etc. Mark Twain? I never sensed him laugh...