Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world is to follow Conrad Hilton about. This is what Andy Kopkind of our Los Angeles bureau has been doing in recent weeks: interviewing his subject on planes, watching him delightedly go through the inevitable ceremonies-a "topping off" in Montreal, hotel openings in London and Rotterdam, groundbreakings in Brussels and Paris-and discovering the precarious world of the newly built. At the London Hilton, Kopkind suffered through a 15-minute elevator ride with Hilton, while the elevator stopped at 25 floors. Something had gone wrong with the mechanism, and once started in its cycle, the elevator had a mind...
Everett Martin, who wrote the cover story, also had files from correspondents in 32 places around the world to work from, so that this globe-circling hotel empire could be seen in the round. Martin himself spent the summer of 1946 working in Hilton's Palmer House in Chicago, and once mistakenly sent a letter from the girl friend of a hotel executive to one of the guests. When Hilton came through town, Martin was forbidden to touch the mail. A sound executive decision, Martin now agrees...
This is Conrad Hilton's second appearance on TIME'S cover. Characteristically, he keeps a copy of the first story (Dec. 12, 1949), framed page by page under glass, in his Southern California home...
...point during the lavish opening of almost every new Hilton hotel, the houselights dim and spotlights pick out a lean, tall man with a shy smile on his permanently suntanned face. He escorts a pretty girl-usually a new one each time-to the center of the ballroom floor. Then, to the slow, stately strains of the violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot...
...76th year, a full decade after most businessmen retire, Hilton is busy spotting the world with hotels wherever the U.S. tourist and businessman alight, girding the globe with new links in the longest hotel chain ever made. Already this year, Hilton has opened new hotels in Teheran, London, Athens, Rotterdam, Rome, Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and Portland, Ore. Under construction are two new Hiltons in Paris, one at Montreal airport, and others in Brussels, Honolulu, Tel Aviv, Guadalajara, Rabat, Mayagüez, Tunis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Cura...