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Motorists speeding east on U.S. Highway 80 near Fort Worth last week slowed down and gawked at a cluster of ranch-like buildings on the right-hand side of the road. The buildings looked like a motel; but no one had ever seen a motel like Western Hills. When it opens next week, it will offer road-worn motorists 200 air-conditioned rooms and super-suites (many with balconies and wood-burning fireplaces) and a kidney-shaped swimming pool surrounded by bamboo-trimmed cabanas. Guests will be able to get free ice cubes from refrigerators scattered around the motel, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Roadside Rest | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Prowler makes its principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves nothing more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Room Service. In Dallas, when the porter at a motel awakened one of the guests at 6 a.m., as requested, the guest got up, followed the porter to the office, pulled out an automatic, drove away with thee night's receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Diehard. In El Paso, a vagrant gave his name as Adolf Hitler, but was booked under the name he had used in signing a local motel register-Heinrich Himmler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...little later the motel telephone rang; the consulate was on the line advising the Earl to get married. A little later, minus collar & tie, the Earl hurried Mildred and two hastily aroused witnesses into the home of Justice of the Peace Delbert Bresemann. The J.P. performed what he proudly described as a "candlelight office wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Pink Slip | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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