Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hotel Heir Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 27, whooped his way out of the place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture, Nicky greeted them with a manful challenge: "You want a fight? Here...
...dramatic canvas called Death of Agamemnon, by Kenneth Evett, for $450 ($85 down, $20 monthly). Fearing that he would be kidded by his fellow workers for"spending so much on art when I could buy a car or something," he asked Meta-Mold to keep his identity secret, hold on to the painting until he could find a place to hang...
...dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold this horse while I run and catch another one.' First thing you know, you've got your hands full of Murchison horses...
...Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 65, of Dallas, who got his start running...
...tomorrow's conditions are poor on Lake Mendota, the race can be run a mile away on the lee shore of Lake Monona, one of three lakes which surround Madison. Every effort, however, will be made to hold the duel on the regular course which runs eastward along the University shoreline, past the Boat House and Fraternity-Sorority Row, and affords spectators an excellent view...