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...Wiley, a Lutheran, read from the First Psalm ("Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly . . ."). Vice President Nixon, a Quaker, read from the 15th chapter of John ("This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you . . ."). Hotelman Conrad Hilton, their host, a Roman Catholic, told them: "It took a war and the frightening evil of Communism to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing . . . Rather it is a part of man's personality, without which he limps...
...half the big moneymakers were historical novels running the short gamut from the trashy to the commonplace, strong on sex, sadism and sometimes even history, but woefully weak as writing. There were a few well-carpentered time killers by such canny old hands as A. J. Cronin and James Hilton, an occasional thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom-but not one new work of topflight fiction. The novels worth cheering about-and there were several...
Hollywood, James Jones's 1951 From Here to Eternity beat out James Hilton's Time and Time Again, Samuel Shellabarger's Lord Vanity, and A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place. Jones's novel also had the year's biggest sale among the paperbacks, a reported 1,500,000 at 75? . Another war novel, Leon Uris' Battle Cry, got in among the hard-cover leaders with a crude, realistic story about marines who had the virtue -refreshing in fiction-of knowing what they were fighting...
...Hilton, who expects the hotel to open late in 1955, will run it for the union on a 20-year contract, get 33⅓% of the profits, which the Cuban government will probably declare taxfree. Best of all, Conrad Hilton will have few worries over strikes that often plague investors in Latin America. Says Hilton, who expects to net $250,000 the first year on the deal: "Imagine, me working for the union. Oh, how I wish Joe Stalin had lived to see this...
...others: Chicago's 3,000-room Conrad Hilton, Manhattan's 2,000-room Waldorf-Astoria, Chicago's 2,268-room Palmer House...