Word: mcalpin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no mistaking the trend (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Besides the Palace, Sheraton last week picked up Manhattan's 1,500-room McAlpin for $9,000,000, its fifth hotel purchase in two months. Now the No. 2 chain in the country, with 32 hotels with room for 24,000 guests, the Sheraton beat No. 1 Operator Conrad Hilton (with 27 hotels sleeping 30,000) to the Palace by offering Mrs. Johnston about $6,500,000, or some $2,000,000 more than Hilton...
...lost his first job as a bus boy at Manhattan's Hotel Astor because he broke too many dishes. The McAlpin fired him for reporting to duty in one white shoe and one yellow one. The Ritz suspended him for dropping an ambassador's breakfast tray. Only after he had served in the U.S. Army in World War I (he was an attendant at a Government insane asylum), did he begin to work steadily-first in the banquet department at the Ritz, and later as a writer and illustrator of such bestsellers as Hotel Splendide and Life Class...