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...chairman of Sheraton Corp., which operates more hotels and motels (87) than any other chain, is a sometime composer of "popular tunes" (Just for You, Come with Me), who is "afraid that I haven't rivaled Irving Berlin." Ernest Henderson, 66, is better at the sort of tune he sang last week when he announced that Boston-based Sheraton expects to be in the black this year after suffering the first loss in its 26-year history in fiscal 1963. Gentle and somewhat shy in appearance, Henderson is actually a nail-hard and penny-conscious executive who goes about...
Pleas for Unity. It began in Cleveland at a $5-a-plate chicken luncheon. Three thousand people jammed the main ballroom and balconies of the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, overflowed into an extra room, where they watched Goldwater on closed-circuit television. He kept them cheering with his charge that the "far left" is more dangerous to the U.S. than the "far right." He slammed the Kennedy Administration hard for giving more than "50 important policymaking jobs" to members of Americans for Democratic Action. Snapped Goldwater: "I worry a lot more about extremists who are inside the house breaking...
...Genovese moved first, recruited Anastasia's own top lieutenant, Carlo Gambino, to help set up his boss for a hit. In October 1957, two Brooklyn hoods hired by Genovese gunned down Anastasia as he sat in a barber's chair in Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel. Seven more gunmen were waiting, just in case the first pair muffed...
Spying the same opportunities, other U.S. chains are following Hilton abroad as fast as they can. The second biggest U.S. hotel chain after Hilton, Sheraton Corp., now has seven foreign hostelries; Hotel Corp. of America has five, and Knott Hotels three. But Hilton's biggest U.S. rival overseas is Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a Pan American World Airways subsidiary that has no hotels in the U.S. In the past six years, Intercontinental has added 13 hotels abroad, to bring its total to 19, expects to double that number within four years. Its hotels are generally smaller than Hilton...
Harry Partch spent all day moving his homemade orchestra from his home in an abandoned chicken hatchery in Petaluma to the ballroom of San Francisco's Sheraton-Palace Hotel. Not until evening, when delegates to the Ameri can Symphony Orchestra League's convention began drifting into the room, were all the instruments ready. There stood the "Spoils of War," the "Sur rogate Kithara," the "Harmonic Canons I and II," the "Chromelodeon" -and there stood Harry Partch, quietly examining the tolerant smiles that have confronted him all his life. "This re minds me of an old Chinese proverb " Partch...