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...father of the modern U.S. hotel, Douglas added some firsts of his own, e.g., television sets in hotel rooms. He also boosted the income of the chain* by renting wasted ground-floor space to shops. Quiet and reserved, Douglas has none of the flamboyance of his chief rival, Conjad Hilton (TIME, Dec. 12). But last year Statler earned more money. It rang up a record gross of $49.2 million and a net of $4.1 million to Hilton's $42 million gross and $3.9 million net. (Hilton's Waldorf has since put him ahead.) Art Douglas still sees...
...prose, to help win High Valley the ?2,000 first prize in an Australian novel contest in 1948. The book will also gen erally please readers who like Oriental stories to have Oriental endings. Those who prefer Southern California endings should be warned that High Valley is not James Hilton's Shangri...
Looking scared, but still beautiful in a billowy white satin $1,200 wedding gown (a gift of M-G-M), Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor became the bride of Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotelman. A crowd of 600 people jammed the candlelit Beverly Hills Church of the Good Shepherd; 2,500 more lined the streets outside. The young folks (the bride had just recovered from a cold in her chest) left for a four-part honeymoon: a night in Santa Monica; a week in Carmel, Calif.; a week in Manhattan; three months in Europe...
Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 18, cinemactress (Father of the Bride); and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotel magnate; in Beverly Hills, Calif. (see PEOPLE...
Those who graduated in March are: James Keeley Brown '50; Richard Wellman Brown '50; Joseph William Gibson '49; Donald Heyneman '46; Robert Errant Kohn '49; Hilton James Landry '50; and Kenneth Melvin Gregory Lewan...