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...years, Chicago's plush-and-horsehair Palmer House has been a gradually fading symbol of baroque elegance. It has also been a prime financial asset of Chicago's elegant Potter Palmer family. Last week, the Palmer House passed from the Palmers to Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the latest addition to his $100,000,000 hotel chain.* In payment, Honore Palmer, son of the "titan of State Street" who grubbed up the family fortune, got $20,000,000 from Hotelman Hilton. The old hotel was the biggest item in the Potter Palmer estate...
...Owner Hilton planned to rejuvenate the old gaffer. As in his other purchases (TIME, Feb. 19), the cash for the Palmer deal was not all Hilton's. First National Bank of Chicago put up $11,000,000. A syndicate composed of Atlas Corp., City Investing Co., Los Angeles friends Frank Freeman and Willard Keith, and other friends in Chicago and Texas put up another $8,000,000. But brisk Mr. Hilton will run things, expects to do well. Said he with satisfaction: "At the price, we got a very good...
...fate and faith were almost as marketable as adultery. Notable were Bruce Marshall's The World, the Flesh and Father Smith (in which the wise innocence of a Catholic priest prevails against the world-his parish-and the flesh-the problems of his parishioners); James Hilton's So Well Remembered, a simple Englishman's struggle between good (his principles) and evil (his wife); James Ramsey Ullman's The White Tower, in which men's aspirations to faith were symbolized in terms of mountain climbing...
...HIGH BARBAREE - Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall - Little, Brown ($2). The magic setting of this high romance, in the tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, is a Polynesian Shangrila. It is plainly designed as a refuge for readers who have had enough of wartime realism. Two Navy flyers are floating on the Pacific in a flak-shattered PBY. One of them passes the tedious, hopeless days talking of the lush, tiny island that he dreamed of as a boy. The fish they finally catch must have been poisonous, because Gene, the navigator, dies that night. But Pilot Brooke...
Manhattan's Literary Guild snapped up James Hilton's So Well Remembered (Little, Brown; $2.50)-catching it on the fly to Hollywood, where such earlier creations as Lost Horizon have fattened Author-Scripter Hilton's purse, made his characters familiar to millions. Other famed Hilton pictures: Knight Without Armor; Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Random Harvest (see cut). British Author Hilton and Chinese Author Lau Shaw proved brothers under the skin. Both proffered an amiable, spotless husband married to a woman more harpy than human. Each seemed to feel his harpy-heroine typified the evil forces against which...