Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the resigned air of a man who has no defense but his cigar, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger puffed into Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel last week and faced a panel of critics from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Subject for discussion: President Kennedy's press conference...
...Club, American Express and Carte Blanche for the nation's credit-card business, someone, and perhaps everyone, was bound to get hurt. Last week Carte Blanche admitted that it was hurt-and badly. For the fiscal year ending April 30, President Benno M. Bechhold estimated that the Hilton Credit Corp., which set up Carte Blanche, would lose $4,000,000. The reason: "Our unsatisfactory collection experience...
...Castle of Otranto. All of this goes on in something that is not to be believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks...
AIRLINES' BOYCOTT of credit cards, other than their own Universal Air Travel Card, was stopped by CAB. The ruling opens the door to American Express, Diners' Club and Hilton credit cards to sign up 118 airline clients...
Since the first Trader Vic's opened in Oakland, Calif., in 1938, Bergeron has set up another restaurant in San Francisco and manages seven others-three for the Hilton hotel chain (in New York, Chicago and Beverly Hills), four for Western Hotels (in Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, and one that opened last week in Vancouver, B.C.). This summer the Trader will start two more restaurants for Hilton, in Washington, D.C., and San Juan, will open a third, owned by himself, in Phoenix. There will also be a Trader Vic's in the new London Hilton. Last year...