Word: hotelmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Town. Through this complex, wholly artificial beehive of modern living, Connie Hilton moves with the speed-and often the freshness-of a cowboy on the town. No "bellhop with a manicure" -as some hotelmen are scornfully labeled in the trade-Connie Hilton is a towering (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered, leatherfaced extravert who proudly wears a $100 Stetson and talks with astonishing frankness about his income (see box] and business affairs...
...Some hotelmen, who have enviously watched Hilton's amazing growth, darkly say that he has grown too fast. But Hilton points to his books in answer. Still remembering his collapse in the depression, Hilton has cut the total debt on his hotels from $32,806,000 in 1946 to $21,308,252 (not including the Waldorf), now owes nothing on the Stevens, the Mayflower or the Hilton Hotels in Lubbock and Albuquerque. He thinks he is as depression proof as any business...
Things to Come. There are also a few other clouds ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They will have books, magazines and newspapers, just like a home. They will have radio and television and recording attachments on the telephones so that the guest will receive his messages in the actual words in which they're given. Bathrooms, besides their present equipment, will have ultraviolet-ray machines...
...When hotelmen warned him that he could not make money on such a hotel in these days of high operating costs and falling revenues, McCarthy snapped: "I went into the oil business in 1933 when everybody said I was a damn fool. Now they're saying it again about my hotel...
Last week, Bob Young gave hotelmen a splashy hang-the-cost exhibition of how he thought a hotel should be opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...