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...signs read "Not wanted, Orson Welles, Stalin's star . . . Dublin rejects Communistic front star . . ." But inside, Welles got cheers when he said: "I am not a Communist. I never was a Communist. I came here to see a play." He also got a character reference of sorts from Hilton Edwards, his actor friend who is also co-owner of the theater: "So long as I have known him, Welles has been trying to be a capitalist...
Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who is never so happy as when he's expanding, this week announced that he was moving within "ten miles of the Iron Curtain." He will build a 300-room, ten-story hotel in Istanbul, which now has no hotel with more than 100 rooms. Like his other foreign hotels, the new Hilton will have a swimming pool, tennis courts, etc. The Turkish government is putting up $4,800,000(part of it under EGA guarantees) to build it; Hilton will provide the working capital and management for one-third of the profits...
...deal is similar to the one Hilton made with the Puerto Rican government two years ago (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949) on the Caribe Hilton, which has paid off handsomely. Under similar arrangements, Hilton will open a new hotel in Madrid next summer, expects to open the Cavalieri Hilton in Rome a year from then and hopes also to put one up in London...
...weeks after their first meeting, movie starlet Betsy von Furstenberg, 19, announced that she would marry Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr. as soon as his divorce from Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor is final...
Died. William H. Balgarnie, 82, senior classics master at Leys School, Cambridge; of a heart attack; in Portmadoc, Wales. During World War I, he taught Latin and Greek to a student named James Hilton, who later used him, in part, as the model for Goodbye, Mr. Chips...