Word: henderson
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...years, the Sheraton Corp. of America, which vies with Hilton for the title of leading U.S. hotel chain, was run pretty much as the private, if not always profitable, satrapy of Co-Founder Ernest Henderson. After Henderson's death two months ago, the chain passed to his son, Ernest Henderson III, 43, as president and chief executive, and longtime Henderson Financial Adviser Richard Boonisar, 60, as chairman. Along with the changeover came rumors that Sheraton was ripe for acquisition if the right offer came...
Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers...
Died. Henry ("Red") Allen, 59, husky-voiced Negro singer and jazz trumpeter, who started playing the horn at eight in his father's New Orleans marching band, wailed his way to fame as a sideman and soloist with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and '30s, later formed his own group, became a fixture at Manhattan's Metropole Cafe and Newport Jazz Festivals; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...written several well-reviewed theological tomes. Understandably, England's Catholics were shocked last week when Father Davis announced that after 20 years as a priest he was leaving the church. Compounding the shock, Davis, 43, also said that he intended to marry an American Catholic, Florence Henderson, 36, of Farmingdale, N.Y., a theology student at Bristol University. She, too, plans to leave the church...
Rebuilding a Life. Davis insists that his forthcoming marriage to Miss Henderson has nothing to do with his leaving the church. "I am marrying," he said, "to rebuild my life upon a personal love I can recognize as true and real, after a life surrounded in the church by so much that is, at best, irrelevant and at worst an obstacle to genuine human experience...