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...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
Into the gilded ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week trooped 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers for their annual convention...
Murderer at Large. Freckle No. 2 was Fort Worth's 80-room Melba ($28,000); No. $ was Hilton's first Waldorf-in Dallas-which he bought with the help of a syndicate of friends. In deal No. 4, he bought Fort Worth's Terminal Hotel with two partners and learned that there were more dangers for a hotelman than the complaints of dissatisfied guests. One of his partners, D. E. Soderman, thought he was being cheated, stalked down the third partner and shot him dead. When Soderman got out of jail, he phoned Hilton and asked...
...amazing growth, darkly say that he has grown too fast. But Hilton points to his books in answer. Still remembering his collapse in the depression, Hilton has cut the total debt on his hotels from $32,806,000 in 1946 to $21,308,252 (not including the Waldorf), now owes nothing on the Stevens, the Mayflower or the Hilton Hotels in Lubbock and Albuquerque. He thinks he is as depression proof as any business...
...anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where can you go from the Waldorf...