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...cited a critic who attacked Joseph Conrad for wasting time on mundane activities in "The Nigger of the Narcissus." "Those mundane things are life, and when criticism begins to regret life it is time to try to conceive more generously," he said...
...million string of 31 hotels, by buying such stately old structures as Boston's Copley Plaza and San Francisco's Palace, changing their names and, by more efficient chain operations, their profit picture. His latest purchase, for $5,000,000: Los Angeles' Town House, which Conrad Hilton sold to Oilman Roy Crummer in 1953. (Hilton will continue operating it under Sheraton ownership until next October.) The results of Sheraton's expansion have been so good that a share of Sheraton stock bought in 1939 is now worth more than 20 times as much after splits. Sheraton...
Divorced. By John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 32, son of Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell: Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 28, daughter of late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay, on grounds of adultery; after eight years of marriage, three children; in Caernarvon, Wales...
...completeness is your aim, choose an author who is easily embraced, that is, whose works you can collect, assemble, and see as a whole. Fielding, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Stendhal, Turgenev, Hardy, Conrad, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold-such writers are not too voluminous; each one has kept up a steady standard, and endowed his works as a whole with a corporate character. Voltaire, Goethe, George Sand, Wells, Bennett, and Belloc, on the other hand, are no use for this purpose . . . They all wrote some rubbish. And to the scholars can be left the mountainous minutiae of Walpoleiana, or the Boswell Papers...
...HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, who now has four hotels abuilding outside the U.S. (in Havana, Mexico City, Acapulco and Istanbul), will soon start work on a fifth in Rome. Hilton has just formed a joint company with his Italian backers, will put up a 400-room luxury hotel, with a shopping center, swimming pools, tennis courts and gardens, in the northwestern part of the city. Estimated cost: about...