Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's dingy old Ames Building a month ago, Ernest F. Henderson, rumpled, fast-moving president of the Sheraton Hotel chain, got an urgent telephone call from Montreal. His Canadian manager, John C. Udd, excitedly told him that Canada's biggest private hotel chain, the Cardy Corp., was for sale. If Henderson wanted to buy it, he would have to give his answer by 5 p.m. that day. Henderson did some quick figuring and called back, "Yes." Then he hopped a train for Montreal...
This week Henderson took the Montreal train again, to clinch the deal with Montreal's Hotelman Vernon G. Cardy, who is equally well-known as a horseman. ("There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse"). For an undisclosed sum, Henderson would get the majority stock in six hotels with reported assets of $15.8 million, including two of Canada's largest-Montreal's 1,100-room Mount Royal and Toronto's 1,100-room King Edward. The others: Hamilton's Royal Connaught, Windsor's Prince Edward...
...Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on Feb. 17 on Colonial's appeal questioning the constitutionality of U.S. bilateral air agreements. This was much sooner than Ottawa had expected. If the agreements are upheld, Washington promised quick action in certifying T.C.A. for the profitable Montreal-New York route, from which it has been barred by Colonial's legal action. Pending the decision, Ottawa called off its move to cancel Colonial's landing rights at Montreal...
...club in hockey (2.2 goals a game this year). But after getting off to a miserable start, Patrick's scoreless wonders have lifted eyebrows all around the National Hockey League by losing only three games in their last 15. By last week, thanks to victories over Detroit and Montreal, they were in second place...
Deep & Woolly. Although his parents were Russian immigrants, Montreal-born George London (real name Burnson) knew no Russian, never needed any until the Vienna Opera assigned him his biggest role. Last month, after studying hard, he sang a fine Boris Godunov-in the first full-dress performance ever sung in Russian by an American. It was his biggest hit yet. Even Vienna's senior critic, Heinrich Kralik, had to concede: "He is not yet Chaliapin, but he's very remarkable...