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...squarely in half. Legs and arms lay 50 ft. away from any body. Only the legs were easy to identify-Japanese if wrapped in khaki puttees, American if covered by canvas leggings. In one spot on the sand, far from the nearest clusters of dead men, I saw a string of guts 15 ft. long...
...months, National Tea Co., sixth largest U.S. retail grocery chain, had squirmed under the critical gaze of one of its new stockholders. The critic: John F. Cuneo, cold-eyed, round-faced owner of The Cuneo Press, Inc., biggest U.S. printers as well as "angel" of Liberty and a string of other magazines...
...editorial, the Tennessean's Jennings Perry rated Boss Crump low as an invective hurler. Said the Tennessean: the South once "bred original and talented artificers in insult. ... Its present practitioners are no more than mere name callers, repetitiously stumbling through the same comminations . . . mumbling a string of bawdy epithets." Trying its own hand, the Tennessean did a little better, but not much. Crump, wrote Editorialist Perry, is a "foulmouthed old boss . . . ugly and snarling ... a contemptible relic of the barbarous past...
...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...
...Hilton string, excluding the Stevens, Plaza, Roosevelt and Town House: the Hilton hotels in El Paso, Lubbock, Plainview, Longview and Abilene, Tex.; the Hilton in Albuquerque, N. Mex.; the Long Beach, Calif. Hilton; the Dayton Biltmore in Ohio; the Rosslyn in Los Angeles, and the Palacio Hilton in Chihuahua, Mexico...