Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formal title: "First World Conference on World Peace Through Law." Ceremonially welcomed by the King and Queen of Greece in the marble halls of the Athens Hilton were 1,000 jurists from 105 nations. The conference was the culmination of a movement launched five years ago by World-Lawman Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association, and followed a series of preparatory sessions in Costa Rica, Japan, Nigeria and Italy. Said Rhyne in his keynote address: "We share one great ideal which transcends our diversity-a belief that in the rule of law lies the route...
...grumped Broadway Producer David Merrick. The consensus was that the earlier, tougher proposals for cutbacks on deductions have frightened off many prospective spenders and have given companies an excuse to trim their entertainment budgets. "The major damage has already been done," says Fred Hayman, resident manager of the Beverly-Hilton Hotel. "As a result of the initial crackdown, many big corporations tightened the expenses of their employees, and they are not about to liberalize them again." If so, Caplin has won some powerful allies to help him take the cheating out of the expense account...
Near the new Athens Hilton stands an 11-ft. bronze replica of Harry S. Truman, 79, commemorating U.S. aid during Greece's Communist troubles of 1947. But some Greek critics found their latest art treasure "in bad taste...
...kind of tough time to leave Washington, when all the cherry trees and all the Kennedys are in bloom." The introductions that followed were dotted with Hope-isms: "Mr. James C. Hagerty (I remember when he was a caddie at the White House); the Waldorf's Conrad Hilton (a man who is really mixing business with pleasure tonight); Mortimer Caplin (the man who can answer the all-important question, is this dinner deductible?)." After laughter, and Hope, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note that had begun...
JAMES C. HAGERTY LEONARD HALL W. AVERELL HARRIMAN REX HARRISON HELEN HAYES JOHN R. HELLER JR. THEODORE M. HESBURGH, C.S.C. CONRAD HILTON OVETA GULP HOBBY BOB HOPE EDWARD HOPPER HEDDA HOPPER ROY HOWARD SAM HUFF GEORGE HUMPHREY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY ROBERT HUTCHINS