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Henry Crown is a fast-moving, fast-thinking Chicagoan who has made $50 million in the last 30 years and has thereby become something of a legendary figure in finance. He is chairman of the Empire State Building Corp., is the No. 2 power in the Hilton hotel chain, and controls the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (with two associates). With Hotelman Conrad Hilton, he bought Chicago's Palmer House and with Hilton and some associates, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. On top of all this, Crown built his Materials Service Corp. of Chicago into the biggest supplier of construction...
After due consideration, the Custom Tailors Guild announced its annual selec tion of the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Top man (in public life): 82-year-old Bernard Baruch. The nine runners-up: Cleveland Indians General Manager Hank Greenberg, 41 (sports), Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 63 (industry), Band Leader Guy Lombardo, 50 (music), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 40 (society), Arthur Murray, 57 (dancing), Yul Brynner, 36 (stage), Robert Montgomery, 48 (radio-TV), Gene Kelly, 40 (screen), Paper Manufacturer Harry E. Gould, 54 (business...
...could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles -no automobiles...
...weeks ago in the Hilton, at almost any hour of day or night, one might have run into a brass band, a fire siren or a bush-league opera soprano straining for high C, but this time the hoopla was relatively restrained...
...into Chicago three days before the convention, and the candidate's first act was to pin a lightning button to his lapel. Then, to prove how young he still was at 74, he led a procession five blocks through the sultry heat to his headquarters in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At a full-dress press conference that afternoon, his eyes looked a little tired, and his pink face seemed slightly drawn with lines of weariness. But as the Veep went through his catalogue of amiable answers and quipped his way through questions about his health, the reporters forgot that...