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...last week Eddie Eagan finally took a count of ten. He resigned his job, and the ink was barely dry before Governor Dewey appointed his successor: Hotelman Robert Christenberry, 52, whose favorite indoor sport is watching wrestling matches on television...
...Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd, and accomplished in more devious dodges than an absconding deadbeat...
Biological Warfare. In Hanau, Germany, when somebody squealed, Hotelman Josef Backhaus brought suit against a competing inn for planting bedbugs in his mattresses...
Western Hills was conceived by Fort Worth Manufacturer Hank Green, a onetime hotelman, who persuaded his brother and three friends to put up $400,000. By the time they got through they had run up the cost to $2,000,000. Despite the big overhead, Green wants to keep prices modest ($4 for a single room, $25 for a "penthouse suite"), thinks he can gross $560,000 a year at full capacity...
...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 and meet the same people they meet...