Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this and other satiric bits ricocheted through a Statler Hilton dining room, John Kennedy's smile seemed wan. Like any President, Kennedy is sensitive to kidding, and at their annual Gridiron Club dinner, Washington newsmen ribbed him, his policies and his family mercilessly. But when the President arose for his own five-minute speech, he showed that he could dish it out as well as take...
...comet burned low in 1950, he went back to architecture in partnership with a gifted Illinois classmate, Los Angeles Architect William L. Pereira. The two built a substantial list of clients, designed the University of California's Santa Barbara campus, the U.S. military bases in Spain, the Berlin Hilton hotel and CBS's Television City in Hollywood. Most of the architecture was frankly Pereira. Luckman wanted to grow bigger and bigger; Pereira wanted to stay small so that he could personally watch over every project from beginning to end. Each got his wish four years ago, when Luckman...
Feature of the well-appointed hotel room is closed-circuit television. At Manhattan's Statler Hilton, guests jaded with westerns and private-eye shows can now watch Telad Corp.'s repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include...
...Hilton Hotels' Carte Blanche club, in serious financial trouble a year ago, anticipates that this year it will at best break even. The three-year-old American Express plan has yet to show a profit. Diners' Club, the granddaddy of the card clubs, watched profits from business with 1,200,000 cardholders slip 21% during the first half of the current fiscal year, under the pressure of increased competition and the recession. Disenchanted, after twelve years of catering exclusively to the credit demands of wining, dining and traveling Americans, Diners' Club last year bought an industrial finance...
...plays and the woman who pays. But the passing years have made some changes in the sociology of adultery. In this third film version of the book-Ross Hunter's full-color, widescreen. $2,500,000 overproduction in which the bathrooms look like the lobby of the Beverly Hilton-the fallen woman falls, not into the pit of shame, but into the lap of luxury. She still suffers, but on silk...