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Johnson's sudden move came when he appeared, bronzed and buoyant, before newsmen at a press conference at the Conrad Hilton. Asked almost unbelievingly if he was really a "serious" candidate, Johnson set pencils to scribbling furiously. If, said Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic delegates should decide "they would like me to be their standardbearer, I will do my duty." Johnson, the victim of a heart attack last summer, made it clear he thought his health was no handicap. Said he: "I have been putting in 15-and 16-hour days every day, including Saturday, during the last weeks...
...party friends and foes at the same time. ¶ NBC will unveil an "ultra-portable" TV receiver so that delegates can see and talk with each other from different parts of the city, and viewers can watch them both on a split screen. ¶ At Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, two entire floors are being transformed into TV studios; cameras are being moved in on floors where delegates will sleep, play and caucus. At San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, a special TV crew will lie in continuous wait for Harold Stassen. ¶ The networks have also marshaled...
With National Chairman Paul Butler crisply presiding, the Democratic Convention Arrangements Committee gathered in a room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel one day last week to choose the convention keynoter. To begin with, there were polite mentions of 17 possible candidates for the job. but soon the selection narrowed down to three: Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey, Oklahoma's stem-winding Senator Bob Kerr (keynoter in 1944). Tennessee's Frank Clement, 36, youngest governor...
Shangri-La (based on James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon; music by Harry Warren; book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) is not what it was under Hilton management. It was obviously tempting to make a musical of James Hilton's famous story about plane-wrecked Occidentals discovering an Asian Utopia where life is serene, desires are moderate, people mellow. But there is possibly something more than just comic about using a Broadway musical to portray serenity and moderation. There is something truly misguided: a Broadway musical is one of the very...
...CONRAD HILTON will put up a new hotel (his 44th, built or planned) in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, on land leased from Equitable Life Assurance Society. It will be finished in late 1958, cost $15 million, have 800 air-conditioned rooms...