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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: PX Pruning | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The 1,001 Partners | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best of 1948 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Affair | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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