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...Reading Public. In Indianapolis, Reporter Bruce Hilton stood on the street with dark glasses, guitar, a tin cup, and a sign announcing: "I am not blind, deaf, dumb or crippled, and do not want any money," in 40 minutes collected...
...with only four editors (it took two more years). When it turned out that Britannica had no funds for an immediate sales campaign, Adler started writing letters, published brochures, finally hopped a plane and started selling in person. Notable catches: William Paley, Paul Mellon, Marshall Field, Conrad Hilton, Harold Swift. His biggest coup: 40 sets at one go to Allied Stores...
...have so little time for it." For a while it seemed as if happiness could hang on such a fragile thing as poor memory. Liz had forgotten to bring along her divorce papers, but science came to the rescue. Confirmation that she was legally divorced from Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton arrived from California by cable in time for the ten-minute civil ceremony in Westminster's old Caxton Hall, where it was witnessed on schedule by Producer Herbert Wilcox and his actress wife Anna Neagle...
...after her divorce from young Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton became a legal fact, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 19, announced that she would marry British Cinemactor Michael Wilding, 39, who is waiting for his own divorce to be final. Said she: "We are definitely engaged. We have no definite plans as to exactly when we'll be married...
...grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never heard of Crown until three years ago, when he and three associates bought working control (25%) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton in the Hilton Hotels Corp. Singlehanded. Crown bought the 19-story Chicago Mercantile Building, which houses the Midwest's butter & egg exchange...