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Police were still of the opinion that the robbery had been carefully worked out beforehand, and statements of a cast member that the dressing room had been cased about 7 p.m. Saturday supported this view. The singer said a man whom he didn't know entered the ground-floor room and told him there was a message waiting at a nearby phone. No one turned out to be waiting, and when the cast member returned, the man had disappeared...
...hotel "firsts" of Founder Ellsworth Statler, father of the modern U.S. hotel, Douglas added some firsts of his own, e.g., television sets in hotel rooms. He also boosted the income of the chain* by renting wasted ground-floor space to shops. Quiet and reserved, Douglas has none of the flamboyance of his chief rival, Conjad Hilton (TIME, Dec. 12). But last year Statler earned more money. It rang up a record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since...
Fire gutted half the living room of Adams C-5 at a few minutes before 3 a.m. this morning. A cigarette started the blaze in a couch under the Mt. Auburn Street window of the ground-floor corner room...
...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. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year by renting out small showcases, known as vitrines, in the lobby, he wired Hilton...
...early morning silence, he leafs through the newspapers, studies state documents. About 5, his barber enters.* At 6, Dutra breakfasts alone on fruit, coffee and rolls. Half an hour later he is ready to receive his staff at his long, bare table under the heavy chandeliers of the ground-floor Salão dos Ministérios. At noon he lunches with his family. When affairs of state permit it, he also dines with his family, then heads for bed promptly at 8. His only recreation is an occasional horseback ride...