Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer wrote in a highly individualized musical shorthand, sometimes indicating whole passages with one or two pothooks, often squeezing in bars off the clef-at the edges and bottom of the sheet-without even indicating where they belonged. His most puzzling short cut was in the correction of notes: instead of erasing, Bartok grafted his improvement right onto the original...
...famed Ritz Hotel was offered to him for $700,000 and he turned it down. Said he: "I thought they were just taking advantage of a fellow from out West." (They weren't; Hilton now regretfully estimates the Ritz to be worth at least $2,500,000.) Instead, for $300,000, he bought control of the Roosevelt, which bustles with salesmen and is as different from the Town House as Coney Island is from Beverly Hills. The Roosevelt deal established Hilton in New York and got him the backing he wanted from such moneybags as Atlas Corp...
...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's horse-trading ability: "If I had a dollar for every time I called that bricklayer an S.O.B., I wouldn...
...Army and a year as a lieutenant in France opened Hilton's eyes to the world beyond New Mexico. He had sold his little bank, and in 1919 (after his father died) he set out for the oil-rich town of Cisco, Texas, looking for bigger game. Instead of a bank, Hilton bought the shaky old Mobley Hotel with $5,000 of his own money, $15,000 from friends and a $20,000 bank loan...
Tonight Crimson coach John Chase will stick to his current starting lineup of Johnny Chase, goal; Jack Carman and Bill Allen, defense; and Myles Huntington. Dave Abbot, and Doug Anderson, forwards. The only squad change is that Duke Sedgwick will dress as fifth defenseman instead of the veteran Steve Howe...