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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mobley," Hilton recalls, "wasn't exactly a hotel-it was sort of a flophouse. We considered it a bad day when we didn't have a three-time turnover on the beds. It was a bad night when I had a bed of my own." But the flophouse made $3,000 the first month and Hilton decided "to freckle Texas with Hilton hotels...
...Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy. The contractor jacked up the price three times, until Hilton suddenly let it be known that he was going after the Palmer House instead. Healy finally came to terms, but they were his own and gave him a clear profit of $1,500,000 for his 15-month ownership. Says Hilton in admiration of Healy...
...Hilton primarily a resort hotel.) "Whenever you see an offer of a 'Hotel in the Pines,'" says he, "stay away from it." He bought the Palm Beach Biltmore, was glad to sell it for a net loss of $183,353, also lost money in a flyer in three Bermuda hotels...
Harvard contributed three winners to the list of 32 new Rhodes Scholars announced at Princeton yesterday by the Rhodes Scholar-ship trust. Only Yale placed more men on the list with four representatives as Princeton's number was equal to that of the University...
...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...