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Died. Ernest Lessing ("Ernie") Byfield, 60, waggish Chicago hotelman (the two Ambassadors, the Sherman) and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn); of a heart ailment; in Chicago. Hotelman Byfield once defined the perfect hotelman as the "master of opposites. He needs to be a greeter and a bouncer, pious but ribald . . . noted as a connoisseur and competent as a plumber...
This week Henderson took the Montreal train again, to clinch the deal with Montreal's Hotelman Vernon G. Cardy, who is equally well-known as a horseman. ("There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse"). For an undisclosed sum, Henderson would get the majority stock in six hotels with reported assets of $15.8 million, including two of Canada's largest-Montreal's 1,100-room Mount Royal and Toronto's 1,100-room King Edward. The others: Hamilton's Royal Connaught, Windsor's Prince Edward...
...Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...
World's Biggest. It was by equally shrewd deals that Connie Hilton had become the world's biggest hotelman. His 13 hotels in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico-ranging from a small hotel in Lubbock, Texas to Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria-have an estimated worth of $125 million and a replacement value of $175 million. He employs 11,250 people, and likes to boast that in his 12,500 rooms he "could sleep in a different bed every night for 40 years...
...room Melba ($28,000); No. $ was Hilton's first Waldorf-in Dallas-which he bought with the help of a syndicate of friends. In deal No. 4, he bought Fort Worth's Terminal Hotel with two partners and learned that there were more dangers for a hotelman than the complaints of dissatisfied guests. One of his partners, D. E. Soderman, thought he was being cheated, stalked down the third partner and shot him dead. When Soderman got out of jail, he phoned Hilton and asked to see him. Fearing that he was next on the list, Hilton told...