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"Put Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E...
Last week a House Armed Services subcommittee found the squawks justified. Though the armed services had shrunk about 85% since war's end, the stores were still doing a whopping business. During 1948 the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps operated 589 stores in the continental U.S., grossing...
He missed few bets. At night, before locking up, Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy...
No one was surprised to find a totally different verdict from the box office. According to Motion Picture Herald, none of 1948's top-grossing films appeared on the "best" lists. Ignoring the critics, as usual, most moviegoers flocked to see The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, Cass Timberlane...
When he arrived from Russia, he was out to burn up the U.S. with his razzle-dazzle speed. In his debut with the New York Philharmonic, he raced through the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto so fast that gouty Sir Thomas Beecham would not even try to keep up with...