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...because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week, Zsa Zsa (exwife of Turkish Bureaucrat Burhan Beige. Hotelman Conrad Hilton and Cinemactor George Sanders) confided to a New York Post gossipist: "None of my ex-husbands ever married again. After they've married me, they...
Glenn McCarthy, 47, the wildcatting rags-to-riches Houston oilman, last week lost his last fingerhold on the green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...
Vigilante. In Columbus, Ohio, when Harry Hilton, 34, called to complain that two police cruisers were wasting their time "loitering" in his neighborhood, suspicious police looked up his name, sent one of the cruisers to arrest him on an old armed-robbery warrant...
...suit came as a surprise to almost everyone in the hotel business-and especially to Conrad Hilton. The day it was filed he was in Paris, on his way back from Berlin, where he had inspected the site for a proposed new hotel. When he first announced the Statler merger, said Hilton, he got a letter from the Justice Department asking for information, which he gave. Then came another "very polite" letter asking for more information, which was supplied. Finally, a third letter arrived saying that that was all the information they wanted. Said Hilton last week: "We never heard...
...Hilton had a strong answer to the Government's case. For one thing, said he, "we don't think we're in interstate business." For another: "In the U.S. there are 30,000 hotels with 1,500,000 guest rooms, which make an annual gross in excess of $2 billion. We operate 23 hotels in the U.S. [with] 24,680 rooms, and in 1954 their gross was $119 million. That is not a monopoly. We will vigorously defend the action of our corporation in acquiring the Statler company." Added Hilton: "Most of our future expansion will...