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Nothing to Lose. From the start, both Chinn Ho and the cautious Yankee management of the Boston-based Sheraton chain were a bit put off by the elusiveness of the would-be purchasers. Publicly, the combine was represented by tough-talking Honolulu Real Estate Woman Ann Felzer...
...shadows-presumably acting as intermediaries between Mrs. Felzer and the actual buyers-stood one D. Franklin Carson, who called himself a "pro-regent,"* and "Prince" Samuel Crowningburg Amalu, 42, who claims descent from the family of Hawaii's famed King Kamehameha the Great...
...President Ernest Henderson flew from Boston to New York and reserved five suites at Manhattan's posh Sheraton-East for the "principals" in his part of the closing. In both Honolulu and New York, representatives of the combine failed to show. Next day came word that Mrs. Felzer and Amalu were in Seattle-where Amalu had been hustled off to jail almost as soon as his plane landed...
...publicity." All Too Fantastic. Most of Sammy's erstwhile business associates found it hard to be so forgiving. While Pro-Regent Carson (who turned out to be a 19-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have thought of 20 different explanations for all this, but they...
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