Word: hotelman
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...stately strains of the violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot out so skillfully is Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, who calls the tune for the $293 million Hilton Hotel chain. Hilton has adopted the obscure Varsoviana as a ceremonial dance of good luck with which to open each of his new hotels-and lately he has been dancing more frequently than ever before...
...room Stevens (which had been occupied by the Army during the war, was later renamed the Conrad Hilton), the world's largest hotel, and Chicago's esteemed Palmer House. The deal that gave him the greatest satisfaction and made him the nation's leading hotelman came when he made the Waldorf-Astoria a Hilton hotel...
...mile, breezing in at 4 min. 00.8 sec. > France's Relko: the 184th English Derby, by six lengths and at 5-1 odds over what British horsemen called the worst field in years (11 of the 26 horses had never won a race). Owned by Paris Hotelman Francois Dupré and a stablemate of Match II, which won last year's $125,000 Washington, D.C., International, Relko picked up $98,950 for his afternoon's outing at Epsom. > Britain's Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting...
...headlined the story of the arrest, l'affaire Argoud was turned into a first-rate international whodunit by the owner of Munich's Hotel Eden Wolff, who said that the S.A.O. leader had checked in there the previous night. Three hours after he had registered, said the hotelman, two men entered the lobby and sent a note up to his room. Argoud came down and spoke to his visitors, who showed him something. All three started out the door together, but then Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled him out to the street...
...after its two competitors had already started. Carte Blanche imprudently handed out cards to poor credit risks, ended up with an inordinate number of bill dodgers. In a rescue operation two years ago, Conrad Hilton eased his son Barren out of the presidency, replaced him with veteran Hotelman Benno M. Bechhold, 60. Bechhold weeded out poor risks, cut the number of cardholders by 100,000 (current membership: 425,000) and installed an IBM 1401 computer to speed up billing operations. As a result, Carte Blanche earned $900,000 on billings of $58.7 million for the first nine months...