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...Beach officials about building their 1966 World's Fair, then to Santa Monica, where his company is in charge of a $55 million redevelopment program. Then he was off to Manhattan for Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. He has three fulltime hotel suites-in the Beverly Hilton (which he built), the Mountain Shadows Resort in Phoenix (which he also built), and Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria (which was built in 1930-31 when he wasn't looking). In each of them, he keeps complete wardrobes, as well as caches of clothes in half a dozen other...
...once seen handing a few coins to his first wife and counting them first. Some time ago, when Manhattan's Hotel Plaza sent him 1½ English muffins for breakfast, he called the head of room service and the manager and even threatened to call Owner Conrad Hilton, claiming that the menu said "muffins" and a measly 1½ did not live up to the plural...
...other hand, it was the English, not the British, who started exploration and settlement in North America. Shakespeare is an English author; Burns a Scottish or Scots or Scotch author; Yeats an Irish author. The only British author I can think of at the moment is James Hilton of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. D. W. BROGAN Cambridge, England
...management, have pyramided Sheraton in 25 years from a single money-losing hotel to a corporate giant with estimated assets of $400 million and 66 hotels scattered from Tel Aviv to Honolulu. (Sheraton, which has more hotels, vies for the title of "world's largest hotel chain" with Hilton, which has more rooms.) And while occupancy rates in most U.S. hotels have dropped steadily in the past decade, Sheraton's rate has been climbing; in May it stood at 74%, v. 64% for the industry as a whole...
...together tuna-fish sandwiches as substitutes for halibut thermidor. At a $25-a-plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof, the hustling hosteler slipped behind the bar to mix a drink for New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem. But it was not a real test. All Mechem wanted was bourbon and water...