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Free Rein. Hilton runs his sprawling empire with the help of a crack team which includes Executive Vice President Robert P. Williford, 49, who started as a desk clerk in 1931; Vice President James B. ("J.B.") Herndon Jr., 50, who was the first manager of the Albuquerque Hilton; Vice President Spearl ("Red") Ellison, 36, who started as a $5-a-month bellhop; Vice President Joseph P. Binns, 43, a relative newcomer to the corporation, who managed the Stevens before Hilton took over. Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first...
...figure that they saved $100,000 last year by careful menu-planning, and this year have spent $215,000 improving dining facilities in the Dayton Biltmore, alone. (In the Stevens, they discovered that only two orders for finnan haddie had been placed in one month, one by Vice President Herndon, the other by Hilton; off the menu went finnan haddie...
After he returned to Georgia to practice law, he was engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was made the victim with my client of the worst kind of treatment against Negroes. The judge referred to me and my client as 'nigger' and 'darky'* and threatened many times to jail...
...defending Herndon I had to familiarize myself with many Communist books and they made sense to me. As I read them I thought of them in terms of my father and the Ku Klux Klan crosses burned in his front yard when he became a member of the Republican National Committee, and of my mother, who died early because of that kind of thing...
...advantage, Herndon says, is the time saved. For a neurotic schoolteacher, he did 42 fillings in three hours. A Washington business woman, who was just in a hurry, had ten teeth filled and five pulled during one appointment. The day may come eventually, thinks Dentist Herndon, when all dentistry will be done on unconscious patients...