Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10...
White Elephant. In Chicago, Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the...
The Proud Past. By the time he had bought the Stevens, Hilton was convinced that he also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history...
Some years before, he had made a trip to Washington and stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked...
The Full Life. By that time the bargains were fast going up in price in the postwar boom. Hilton decided to consolidate his gains and let a biographer, who had been busily trying to keep up with the fast-moving life of Hilton, get out his book under the title...