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Publicly, McCarthy did not regret the loss of his Shamrock. Said he: "You can always build other hotels." It was not all bombast; actually, the sum that he received was what he thought he needed to put over his newest project and perhaps make another fortune...
Glenn McCarthy, 47, the wildcatting rags-to-riches Houston oilman, last week lost his last fingerhold on the green-tinted Shamrock Hotel. For $625,000 he sold Hilton Hotels his redemptive right to the Shamrock, thus gave up the privilege of buying back the property that cost him $21 million. With that went the last significant chunk of the far-flung McCarthy empire, which in its heyday encompassed big Southwestern oil and gas fields, export-import companies, a Detroit steel plant, weekly newspapers, a Houston bank...
Each bandsman will wear a large shamrock over the breast pocket of his red uniform jacket, and a large green sign proclaiming "Erin Go Bragh" will be stretched across the row of tubas...
However they started, every one of the 21 teams from seven nations dropped down the same 1,750-yd. slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil's Dyke," slithered and bounced past the checkpoint called Tree, turned right to swing beneath a railway bridge and shot toward the finish line at better than 70 miles an hour. However their techniques varied, every team at St. Moritz had one thing more in common: they all rode...
...Shamrock brings busy Connie Hilton's string to 19 hotels with 18,344 rooms in the U.S. and abroad. He has five more hotels abuilding (Havana, Beverly Hills, Mexico City, Acapulco, Istanbul), and three others in the planning stage (Rome, Cairo, London). But Connie Hilton is not ready to settle back just yet. Though Hilton is not talking, rumors are buzzing that he is in a hot bidding battle with Real-Estate Operator William Zeckendorf (see below) for control of the $67 million Statler chain of eight big U.S. hotels. Zeckendorf has already bid $50 a share for Statler...