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...make such an enormously complicated, 24-hour a day business work, Hilton has surrounded himself with a team of crack operating people. In terms of authority, the No. 2 man in the Hilton chain is astute and ambitious Robert J. Caverly, 44, who watches over all operations. General Manager Curt Strand, 42, is the boss of the international division. Chicago Financier Henry Crown, who is worth $500 million himself and has interests in everything from General Dynamics to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, has been a close Hilton associate ever since he joined him in buying the Palmer House...
...oddball. He never smokes, rarely drinks, owns "two or three, I think" suits of clothes. He refuses to hire a business manager ("I don't want to be bandied around like some blooming new soap powder"), and once turned down a publisher's offer with a curt: "I just don't want to write a book." He regards racing as something akin to painting or music-an art, in which perfection is probably impossible but still worth trying for. Sometimes he worries about whether he likes the sport too much for his own good. "I almost wish...
Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Enemy Below, with Robert Mitchum on the surface and Curt Jurgens skippering a Nazi submarine at depth...
From the councils of the Administration last week emerged a curt and puzzling bulletin announcing that the three detonations scheduled to take place at the Nevada nuclear test, site during May had been canceled. That was all. There was no public gesture of explanation...
Renato Poggioli, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and one of the country's leading Slavic scholars, died Friday at Crescent City Hospital, California, as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident last Monday. He was 56 years...