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...toughest fights of Midwesterner Kirkeby's nine-year career as a hotelman, and the stakes were high: control of Manhattan's 375-room Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Sharply at 10 a.m., big, confident Mr. Kirkeby arrived at 14 Wall Street for the annual meeting of Sherneth Corp., which owns the Sherry-Netherland...
...downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi concentration camp), built four new cottages and a "Swiss chalet" annex, converted an old inn into the Eastern Slope hotel. He lost $50,000 on the hotel for three years, until he hired Hotelman Lester Sprague to pull...
...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...
Many another hotelman grinned when he remembered the Stevens' reputation as one of the world's outstanding peacetime white elephants (chief disadvantage: the Stevens is not convenient to the heart of Chicago's Loop). But they had enough respect for Hilton's reputation as a mon eymaker to predict that he would make even the Stevens...
...Texas horse-trader fashion, he bought and sold more than two dozen hotels, naming most of them after himself, finally built the chain that has brought him an estimated fortune of $28,000,000 and made him one of the ranking men in the U.S. hotel business.* As a hotelman, Hilton has relied heavily on four attributes: 1) tremendous energy (he can get by with four hours' sleep); 2) a shrewd ability to analyze people and pick good employes; 3) a knack with figures; 4) a sincere love of playing host...