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...Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who hates to pass up a good deal, last week was busy roping still another hotel into his bulging corral. Hilton announced that he had bought Houston's lavish (TV, air conditioning, Muzak, a 165-ft. swimming pool), 1,100-room Shamrock Hotel, opened in 1949 by Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy. The seller was the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which took over the $21 million hotel in 1952 as part payment on a defaulted $34 million loan to McCarthy Oil & Gas Corp. Equitable's price to Hilton: $18 million, including $7,000,000 for 500 surrounding...
...CONRAD NORTON Assistant Director Union of South Africa Government Information Office New York City
Gradually, Pediatrician Conrad Riley and a team of other specialists at Babies Hospital (part of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) collected a handful of other cases showing most of Miriam's symptoms. The one that appeared invariably was the absence or extreme scarcity of tears while crying. Another thing the doctors noted: all the children so afflicted were of Jewish parentage. (The first proved exception, a Quaker child, was reported only last week...
...Williams varsity could take only the second and fourth singles, and it lost the other eight singles matches in straight sets. The Crimson winners included Ham Gravem, Captain John Rauh, Donn Spencer, Don Bossart, Conrad Fischer, Herb Stone, and Maynard Canfield. The varsity's second and fourth men--both of whom lost close three-set matches--were Brooks Harris and Alex Haegler...
Everyone can remember something in his childhood that seems as wacky and improbable as an incident in Alice in Wonderland, but Novelist David Garnett wins hands down with his memories of childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied...