Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable opinion that the heroine of my novel was 'practically a prostitute.' Bear in mind that the part she was eager to play was Cleopatra, not Joan of Arc. Bear in mind, too, the fact that the then Mrs. Eddie Fisher had already been Mrs. Todd, Mrs. Hilton and Mrs. Wilding, though not yet 30 years old, and had long since changed her public image from that of the little girl who loved a horse in National Velvet." "Ingrid's really like a pixie," said one of her friends. Ingrid ("Fiffi") Finger, 19, is no such thing...
Giant scrapers last week clawed at a Los Angeles hilltop where a 500-room Sheraton hotel will soon rise. Half a world away, turbaned Moslems naked to the waist poured concrete foundations for Intercontinental Hotels in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In St. Paul, the framework for a 24-story Hilton climbed skyward, while in New Haven, Conn., and Montreal, workmen were busy building locally financed hotels. These far-flung structures are the creations of one architect: balding, cherubic William Benjamin Tabler, 50, who has become the world's busiest designer of big hotels, including the new Hiltons in Manhattan...
Jetting through a hotel construction boom that has spread to most parts of the earth, Tabler has designed 35 hotels that cost $314 million, has 49 more projects abuilding or on the drawing boards in his penthouse office in Manhattan's Statler Hilton. Having signed up last month to design another $50 million worth, he flew off last week on an eleven-day inspection of work in progress in Los Angeles, London, Nairobi and Johannesburg...
Using mock-up rooms, he has figured out how small a room can shrink be fore customers will rebel (in low-rate hotels, it can be 71 ft. by 10 ft.). At the New York Hilton, he fitted out a service elevator as a speedy, efficient pantry for Continental breakfasts: one man, instead of the usual three, takes an order on the telephone, warms rolls and pours coffee while the elevator moves, then delivers it to the proper floor. Another Tabler innovation: a strip of black paint in place of black tile on the bottom of closets (saving...
...Also: Hilton Cheong Lean of Hong Kong, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Hong Kong: Rafael do Tagle of the Philippines, business editor of the Manilla Chronicle: and Yoshiyuki Tsurumal of Japan, program officer of the International House of Japan. The talk will be at p.m. in Burr...