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...with two orchestras, three bars, wine list and kitchen. Among the items which impressed the social reporters: imported 10-gallon hats for the guest list of 300, which included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives hired to guard an estimated $2,000,000 worth of party jewelry; a 5 a.m. breakfast of ham & eggs and champagne; the tab for the night, which came...
...million in the last 30 years and has thereby become something of a legendary figure in finance. He is chairman of the Empire State Building Corp., is the No. 2 power in the Hilton hotel chain, and controls the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (with two associates). With Hotelman Conrad Hilton, he bought Chicago's Palmer House and with Hilton and some associates, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. On top of all this, Crown built his Materials Service Corp. of Chicago into the biggest supplier of construction materials in the U.S. Crown has achieved much of his success...
After due consideration, the Custom Tailors Guild announced its annual selec tion of the ten best-dressed men in the U.S. Top man (in public life): 82-year-old Bernard Baruch. The nine runners-up: Cleveland Indians General Manager Hank Greenberg, 41 (sports), Hotelman Conrad Hilton, 63 (industry), Band Leader Guy Lombardo, 50 (music), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 40 (society), Arthur Murray, 57 (dancing), Yul Brynner, 36 (stage), Robert Montgomery, 48 (radio-TV), Gene Kelly, 40 (screen), Paper Manufacturer Harry E. Gould, 54 (business...
...Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never heard of Crown until three years ago, when he and three associates bought working control (25%) of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton in the Hilton Hotels Corp. Singlehanded. Crown bought the 19-story Chicago Mercantile Building, which houses the Midwest's butter & egg exchange...
...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...