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...rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world's biggest hotelman, was ready to open his newest and plushest hotel: the $17 million, 450-room Beverly Hilton. Beamed Hilton: "This will be the biggest hotel opening in the history of the business...
Lions & Ladies. Conrad Hilton, who has flown planeloads of celebrities as far as Istanbul for previous hotel-warmings, was not exaggerating. After two years of construction, Hotelman Hilton was sparing no pains and spending $150,000 to throw the splashiest party of his career...
...bigger and better things, Sonnabend's syndicate paid Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950) $8,000,000 for the Cleveland real estate once owned by the Van Sweringens, including the Hotel Cleveland. Later, it bought Manhattan's Plaza for $15 million from Conrad Hilton. Says Sonnabend: "We are going to try to maintain it as the finest hotel in the world. It will be our flagship...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, 3) Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, 4) Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff...
...government build an island off Waikiki and announced a plan to put $110 million into new resorts. Last week H.J. began to back his words with actions. After a quick trip to Los Angeles to line up financing, consult with Architect Welton Becket and a representative of Conrad Hilton, Kaiser plunked down $491,000 for more beachfront, thus became Waikiki's biggest landowner (16½ acres...