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...Conrad Hilton did not know it, but almost since the day he began courting the Statler company's nine hotels, the house detectives have been snooping into the affair. Last week they broke right into the bridal chamber, crying that the Hilton-Statler marriage (TIME, Aug. 16) was illegal. Attorney General Brownell and his antitrust assistant, Stanley Barnes, filed a civil antitrust suit charging that the merger 1) eliminated competition, particularly for convention business, between Hilton and Statler; 2) may give Hilton a competitive advantage over other hotels; 3) "substantially increased" concentration in the hotel industry. Brownell and Barnes...
...Murrow's Person to Person reached to California to show how the other half of 1% of the population lives-in a visit to Hotelman Conrad Hilton's 61-room Bel-Air home. Hilton led the cameras through endless hallways, lounges, state dining rooms, silver vaults and patios-all of them bearing a startling resemblance to Statler lobbies. It was almost a relief, in the second part of. the program, to visit the 4½-room Manhattan apartment of Red Buttons, who did a serviceable imitation of Hilton by patting his wall and confiding that it was made...
Counterattack. The challenger's road show took it in stride. Newsmen summoned to the presidential suite on the 23rd floor of Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel found Wolfson perched modestly on the edge of his seat while onetime Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy who will organize stockholder committees' delivered a testimonial: "Louis is one of the cleanest persons I have ever known clean in mind and body. He is a really better person than 95% of the Catholics I have known and I have known...
...next day, before the 2,113 people jampacked into the Conrad Hilton's grand ballroom, Wolfson took the fight to Avery. He compared Ward's earnings of 5.5% on investment to Sears's 13%, J. C. Penney's if he couldn't do better, said Wolfson he "would tender my resignation and walk out." He reported spending $350,000 so far on the proxy fight, added he expected the stockholders would be "glad" to repay...
NCAA Champions in 1950, the Tigers will again be predominantly Canadian, with only four out of 18 on the squad from the States. The team's blue-line unit will be led by Captain Phil Hilton, a strong candidate as All-American defenseman. Colorado's attack centers about forward Clare Smith, second in the League's scoring race...