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...million string of 31 hotels, by buying such stately old structures as Boston's Copley Plaza and San Francisco's Palace, changing their names and, by more efficient chain operations, their profit picture. His latest purchase, for $5,000,000: Los Angeles' Town House, which Conrad Hilton sold to Oilman Roy Crummer in 1953. (Hilton will continue operating it under Sheraton ownership until next October.) The results of Sheraton's expansion have been so good that a share of Sheraton stock bought in 1939 is now worth more than 20 times as much after splits. Sheraton...
...once was accustomed to the starving writer who did some of his most important work bargaining in hock shops and died broke, e.g., O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe. It was also accustomed to the spectacularly rich writer who made a fortune with his gold-plated typewriter, e.g., James Hilton and Zane Grey. However true or false these extreme images may have been, they describe few living U.S. authors. In his Democracy in America (1835-1840), Alexis de Tocqueville said: "In democratic times the public frequently treat authors as kings do their courtiers; they enrich and despise them ..." Few American...
Died. James Hilton, 54, smoothly sentimental, bestselling, British-born novelist; of cancer; in Long Beach, Calif. A published novelist at 20, Hilton supported himself for eleven years as a lecturer at Cambridge, free-lance newspaper feature writer and book reviewer while he perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, who now has four hotels abuilding outside the U.S. (in Havana, Mexico City, Acapulco and Istanbul), will soon start work on a fifth in Rome. Hilton has just formed a joint company with his Italian backers, will put up a 400-room luxury hotel, with a shopping center, swimming pools, tennis courts and gardens, in the northwestern part of the city. Estimated cost: about...
...laughs and questions swirled about her head, Post Lovelorn Editor Jane Sterling (real name: Doris Hilton) put a notice in her column: "Phyllis C.: Please call my office." Next day, Editor Sterling got a phone call from a man, who refused to give his name. Yes, he knew Phyllis C.; she was his sister-in-law. She was out of the city, but would call when she returned. Next day, the man himself called on Editor Sterling-with a confession. Feeling guilty about all the publicity, he admitted that he had written the letter...