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When he died of pneumonia last week at a wizened 91, his perennially profitable Hilton Hotels Corp. owned, managed or franchised 185 hostelries in the U.S. with revenues of $372 million in 1977. (The overseas subsidiary, Hilton International, was sold to Trans World Airlines in 1967.) Though Hilton's son Barren, 51, took over as chief executive more than a decade ago, Papa kept the title of chairman and continued to turn up daily at his Beverly Hills office to answer fan mail and assist charities. Besides Barron, another son, Eric, and 14 grandchildren, Hilton is survived...
DIED. Conrad N. Hilton, 91, financial wizard who parlayed a small Texas hotel into an international chain of 261 hostelries; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif, (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
DIED. Herbert Fisk Johnson, 79. longtime head of Johnson's Wax and art aficionado; of pneumonia; in Racine, Wis. "Hib," who in 1922 began to work for the company founded by his grandfather, was a pioneer in providing employee benefits; he established a pension and hospitalization plan in 1934. In 1936 he commissioned from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright a now famous office building in Racine and in 1962 invested $750,000 to buy U.S. art, which is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution...
...prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...
DIED. Eben Roy Alexander, 79, TIME'S managing editor for a record length of time, eleven years (1949-60); of pneumonia; in Roslyn, N.Y. A graduate of St. Louis University who served in the Marine Corps during World War I, Alexander worked for the St. Louis Star for four years and for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 14, eventually becoming assistant city editor. He came to New York City and TIME as a writer in 1939. Equally at home in subjects as diverse as politics, religion, music, foreign affairs and the classics, Alexander became assistant managing editor...