Word: stetsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husky, ruddy-faced man looked like a tough trail boss in a TV western as he mounted his palomino and set off across the rugged mountain country north of Los Angeles. He wore thread bare khaki trousers over his riding boots, a red Western shirt and a modified stetson, and packed an automatic pistol to deal with any rattlesnakes, bobcats or mountain lions he might encounter...
...about Hilton is that he is so much like the guests he caters to. Boyish, candid, trusting, he never fails to be amazed and pleased-even astonished-by the world around him. He cannot get over the speed of jet planes or his possession of a $100 Texas-style Stetson, whose price he mentions to anyone who will listen. He is susceptible to even the most transparent flattery. "You know," he says, "after the Rotterdam opening, the president of the corporation that owns the hotel came up to me and said, 'Your dance was the greatest thing that happened...
...rise. Gains of three points or more were made by blue chips such as A.T. & T., Allied Chemical, International Nickel, Union Carbide, Westinghouse Electric. "The market has the best leadership you can have," said Gerald M. Loeb, partner in E. F. Hutton & Co. Bradbury Thurlow, of Winslow, Cohu & Stetson, figured that the upward swing "is a little too big for a false start." He calls the current market a "baby bull," and expects that it will get added nourishment when the mutual funds, which have been hoarding their cash on the sidelines, begin to buy. "They follow the public...
...when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman, dabbled in Hindu mysticism, organized world peace conferences, spent freely for studies on everything from genetics to extrasensory perception, and the 100,000 oddball gadgets that would-be inventors poured into his Institute of Inventive Research...
...near Daingerfield in East Texas was a folksy message to the company's 4,600 employees: "I've got a can full of worms, a bucket of minnows and a cane pole, and I'm headed for the creek bank." Thus last week did white-haired, Stetson-hatted E. B. (for Eugene Benjamin) Germany, 69, announce his retirement after 15 years as president of one of Texas' most remarkable and controversial corporations. Continuing as chairman, Germany will be replaced as Lone Star's chief executive officer by tough, taciturn George A. Wilson, 52, who headed...