Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Sari Gabor Hilton, 26, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, and Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, hotel magnate: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Constance Francesca. Weight...
...months ago, Sari told tabloid readers that she11) had once been doped into "continuous slumber" for six months, and 2) was going to sue Hilton for divorce, $10 million...
Keep in Balance. Paepcke invited such friends as United Air Lines's William A. Patterson, Hilton Hotels' Connie Hilton, Palmer House Manager Joseph Binns to invest in the project, up to $5,000. But most of the bills, more than $1,000,000 so far, were paid by Paepcke. During the first week of business, the gross return on this investment was about $2,500 a day (hotel rates ran from $4 to $14 without meals). With 25 lakes and 1,000 miles of trout streams within a 20-mile radius, Aspen should do equally well during...
Number 14 was Washington's Mayflower, which, although only 21 years old, is already rich with political legend. To get the 1,000-room Mayflower, Connie Hilton paid $2.6 million to Philadelphia's Donner Estates for a controlling bloc (200,000 shares) of the hotel's common stock. With the stock came a sorry financial history. Allen E. Walker, oldtime Washington real-estate man who started to build the Mayflower, lost it in a mortgage deal before he got through putting the basement in. Finally completed at a cost of $13 million by the mortgage-holder, William...
...William McKinley lived there as governor. Other guests: Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley. The present structure, fourth on the same site, was built in 1923, has 700 rooms. It does an annual business of more than $2,000,000-which is just what Connie Hilton paid...