Word: hotelman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Maria Isabella Patino y Bourbon, 18, Bolivian tin millionheiress; and James Michael Goldsmith, 20, son of a wealthy London hotelman; in Kelso, Scotland (see PEOPLE...
...glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid $189 for the calf, grossed $21,445 ($20,100 in the auction, $1,345 m prizes). Probable...
...Hustling Hotelman Conrad Hilton had a busy week. To the 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...
Behind the flashy facades of the big hotels along the Strip is a lugubrious lot of wealthy owners. Some are thoroughly respectable, but some are not. The Desert Inn is run by amiable Wilbur Clark, a hotelman with a large following, in partnership with a syndicate of erstwhile Cleveland racketeers. The luxurious Sands, scene of the recent Hayworth-Haymes extravaganza (TIME, Oct. 5), is owned by tiny, wizened Jake Friedman, who made his stake operating gambling casinos in Texas. The sprawling Flamingo was built by the late Bugsy Siegel before Bugsy met his untimely, slug-ridden end in Hollywood...
...Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who has recently been cooking deals like popcorn (TIME, Nov. 9), plans to build a $6,000,000, 400-room luxury hotel in Cairo. The Egyptian government and Misr Bank will put up the money, give Hilton a 20-year lease...