Word: oned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Shirley Jane Temple, 21, cinemactress: John Agar, 28, cinemactor; after four years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood...
...story Caribe Hilton stood dazzling and white on a peninsula, amid a garden of yellow hibiscus trees, breadfruit, almonds and tall waving palms. On one side of the hotel were the coral beach and the long rolling waves of the Caribbean; on the other, old San Geronimo Castle, a blue bay, pink and white houses and, in the distance, mountains...
...graciousness to start off his reply in Spanish: "Mi estimado amigo." His esteemed friends in Puerto Rico were so overwhelmed by this friendly tone-and by the Hilton name-that they decided to build the $6,500,000 hotel for Connie Hilton. The deal is a friendly one...
...with the grime of years. The Plaza's first guest in 1907 (at $30,000 a year) had been Alfred G. Vanderbilt, and since then the hotel's quiet, Old World atmosphere had made it a favorite of Manhattan's lorgnette & limousine set. One longtime Plaza guest was so frightened at the thought of a breezy Westerner taking over that she dashed off a letter to Hilton which began : "Dear Sir: If you touch a speck of the sacred dust of the dear old Plaza...
...Norwegian immigrant, he was born on Christmas Day of 1887 in little (pop. 500) San Antonio, N.Mex. His father, August Holver Hilton, parlayed a jug of whisky into the town's general store, livery stable, and eventually a coal mine, which made him one of the richest men in that part of the country...