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Separated "too much and too long" by "professional requirements" during their eleven years of marriage, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor decided that a California divorce was the only way out. Feeling the same way, as of last week: Elizabeth Taylor, after seven months of marriage to Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr.; Betty Mutton and Ted Briskin, who had been trying again after several separations and a divorce...
Hollywood home life was having its usual ups & downs. After another spat with Martha Vickers, his third wife, quick-tempered Mickey Rooney, 30, huffed off to live with his mother for a while. After seven months of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, 18, and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, decided to try a separation test...
...George Apley traveled abroad for the first time, he was agreeably surprised to find that parts of Europe were just like New England, only not so nice. And he met so many Bostonians in his Paris hotel that it was just like being at home again. Last week, Conrad Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, made sure that other Americans would henceforth be able to share George Apley's pleasure. He set out to build a chain of foreign hotels just like those in the U.S., so that American tourists would feel completely at home abroad...
...starter, Connie Hilton last week planted the flag of his empire firmly atop Monte Mario, one of the seven hills of ancient Rome. There, financed by the Italian government with an assist from ECA, a new $6,000,000 hotel with 400 rooms will be built. When it is finished in the spring of 1953, Hilton will put between $300,000 and $400,000 in as working capital, and operate it under a 20-year lease. He will turn over 70% of the profits to the Italian owners, keep a tidy 30% for himself. In similar deals, Hilton intends...
Among the winners of this year's Horatio Alger awards (presented by the American Schools & Colleges Association): Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who started out with a five-room adobe hacienda); Alexander Harris (who rose from a polisher of cigarette-lighters to president of the Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc.); Thomas E. Courtney (from $6-a-week car washer to president of the $14 million Northern Illinois Corp...