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...found out, Mr. Thurber writes little pieces about parlor games, hobbies and travel, but most of the time he writes about himself. Thurber Country is the latest in a long and proud line of collections of these little pieces, and even by Thurber standards, it is good one. New Yorker readers will find a majority of the articles familiar, but certainly no less delightful for a second, or even a third or fourth reading. Among the seven selections never before published in the United States is a short discourse on the Thurberian approach to word games, pointedly titled...
...founded in 1697, under a grant of England's William III, Trinity Church was a little, unsteepled frame building outside the city limits, at the head of a country road named Wall Street and on a lane called the Broad Way. Thus, like many another early New Yorker, Trinity got rich simply by sitting still on a piece of real estate. Trinity's balance sheets would be enough to give the average budget-bullied minister spots before the eyes. Though by 1825 the parish had given away two-thirds of its holdings to help found some...
...string of 17 hotels he operates around the world, he added an 18th, by a deal in Manhattan. To the six other hotels he has abuilding or contracted for around the world, he added a seventh in another deal in Havana. In Manhattan, he bought the 43-story New Yorker Hotel for $12.5 million. Actually, Hilton paid no cash on the transaction: instead, he gave the Manufacturers Trust Co.. owner of the New Yorker, 111,960 shares of preferred and common stock in the Hilton Hotels Corp. (worth $7,200,000), and agreed to take over the New Yorker...
...purchase gives Hilton the world's four biggest hotels.* all of them good moneymakers. And the deal for the 2,100-room New Yorker, which cost about $19 million in 1930 and made money by luring in guests with such services as sterilized bathrooms (with the door sealed in cellophane for the incoming guest to break), fits right into Hilton's plans of booking the big convention business flocking to Manhattan. And it was also the kind of deal Hilton hates to pass up. Just three months ago. he sold Manhattan's 1,060-room Plaza Hotel...
...days after he bought the New Yorker, Hilton flew to Havana. There he signed a contract to operate a new $11 million luxury hotel in a fashionable part of the city for the Retirement Fund of Cuba's 45,000-man Culinary Workers Union. The union agreed to finance the hotel with $6,000,000 from the fund, plus another $5,000,000 bank loan...