Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his client went on trial for espionage in Washington last spring, lumpy little Archie Palmer had tried to save her with wild histrionics and indigestible tales of international romance in Manhattan's subways. Archie failed; Judy Coplon was convicted and sentenced to 40 months to ten years in prison (TIME, July 11). Last week, as Judy prepared to go on trial in Manhattan on an additional charge of conspiracy, Archie Palmer was still his corny, arm-waving self, but he had discovered a new angle. Teamed up with a shrewd Manhattan attorney named Abraham Pomerantz, Archie complained that...
Actors William M. Pickles '50, Palmer T. Dizon '51, and Theodore K. Bullard '46, and actresses Lansing Lamont '52, and Kerry R. Lyne '52, are the principals in the theatrical company, while Hugh Shepley '51, Peter D. Dibble '50, and Frederick H. Gwynne '51 take the side of Puritanism. Lovely Roger L. Butler '61, plays Holly, a stage struck bobby-soxer...
...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, Hilton teamed up with Builder Henry Crown (TIME, Nov. 28) and signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth...
...Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first marriage, Eric, 16, and Baron, 21, are not in the business). Hilton lets his managers run things pretty much as they please. He merely sets the targets. When he bought the Palmer House, he installed Binns as manager, told him: "This place should net another $600,000 a year." Then he took off for the Coast, leaving Binns to figure...
...make $18,000 a year by renting out small showcases, known as vitrines, in the lobby, he wired Hilton for an O.K. Hilton wired back: "I don't know what a vitrine is, but if they'll bring in that much, put them in." In the Palmer House, a bookstore that was paying a rent of $250 a month was replaced by a cocktail lounge grossing $2,000 a day. Employee locker space was centralized, making space for 50 additional rooms. In Hilton's first year, the Palmer House's operating profit rose...