Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.

The private equity group said it would combine cash from its real estate and corporate private equity funds to buy all outstanding Hilton shares for $ 47. 50 each, a 32 percent premium over the July 3 closing stock price.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

Evan Pederick voluntarily confessed and was convicted of the Sydney Hilton bombing stating that his conscience could not tolerate the guilt and that " I guess I was quite unique in the prison system in that I had to keep proving my guilt, whereas everyone else said they were innocent.

" Peter Hilton, transport analyst at CSFB, said Tyler's remarks were a " cut and dried " dismissal of the takeover talk.

Nicol was staying at the Budapest Hilton, and was allegedly trying to make an international phone call when, presumably, something the operator did or said infuriated him, causing him to rip the phone out of the wall and toss it through the plate-glass window of his suite.

The Baltimore Sun said on April 21, 2008, " There's just a glimpse of the Bromo Seltzer Tower's crenellated top just to the right of the new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center hotel ... something's drastically different at Oriole Park this year ... the sweeping view of downtown Baltimore that fans have enjoyed for the past 16 seasons has changed considerably ..." Sportswriter Peter Schmuck complained, " the big, antiseptic convention hotel ... looms over Camden Yards ... has blocked out the best part of the Baltimore skyline ".

On November 13, the Baltimore Sun said that Mayor Martin O ' Malley approved the 750-room Hilton Hotel RLJ proposal, granting RLJ Development a six-month exclusive negotiating priority to build the $ 200 million hotel, subject to negotiation of financing and room blocking for convention business.

The Baltimore Development Corporation and Baltimore Mayor Martin J. O ' Malley said the city needed the 752 room Hilton to remain competitive in the convention industry and that the Baltimore Development Corporation could not secure a private investor on terms more favorable than the proposal for the publicly-financed project submitted to the city council for approval.

The Baltimore Sun said on April 21, 2008, " There's just a glimpse of the Bromo Seltzer Tower's crenellated top just to the right of the new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center hotel ... something's drastically different at Oriole Park this year ... the sweeping view of downtown Baltimore that fans have enjoyed for the past 16 seasons has changed considerably ..." Sportswriter Peter Schmuck complained, " the big, antiseptic convention hotel ... looms over Camden Yards ... has blocked out the best part of the Baltimore skyline ".

Sharon Klein, senior VP of casting at the studio, said she was immediately fascinated by Ms. Hilton and wanted to do a show with her.

Applegate has said that she looked outside a window and saw the hotel name Hilton and rearranged the letters to form nothlit, albeit not totally faithful to the word.

Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Chips, came chiefly from W. H.

She was said to be a wife of Den in Dodson and Hilton.

The writer Tim Hilton said: " Bartali was essentially an Italian cyclist, a champion who rode within sight of his own people, and was uneasy when the Tour de France travelled north of Paris.

Boyd Hilton said Windham " was the first in a line of brilliant but maverick right-wing politicians — Lyndhurst, Randolph Churchill, F. E. Smith — who operated too far outside the consensus to be effective.

" Richard Roeper said " I think Sienna Miller does a really nice job of capturing Edie Sedgwick, who really was the fore-runner to Paris Hilton and a lot of other people who are just famous for being famous.

Wittmann has also been critical of the Republican leadership: " Republicans are about as serious about fiscal responsibility as Paris Hilton is about modesty ," Wittmann said, according to The Washington Post on January 4, 2006.

Hilton said, " I was so angry I snubbed my own premiere.

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The third time was on the floor of the Beverly Hilton ballroom and for the critical eyes and tongues of judges.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

Hurst played one first-class cricket match for Essex, against Lancashire at Aigburth in 1962, although it was not a successful outing: he made 0 not out in the first innings, and was bowled by Colin Hilton, again for 0, in the second.

Before the cremation, Brood's casket was driven from the Hilton hotel to Paradiso, Amsterdam, the streets lined with thousands of spectators.

Just northwest of the shipyard, Hilton Village, one of the first planned communities in the country, was built by the federal government to house shipyard workers in 1918.

The piña colada was created on August 16, 1954 at the Caribe Hilton ’ s Beachcomber Bar in San Juan, Puerto Rico by its alleged creator, Ramón " Monchito " Marrero.

In a November 2010 video interview with Perez Hilton, Robyn revealed that she was returning to the studio in January, 2011, and had enough material to release a new album later in the year.

The Chargers ' original owner was hotel heir Barron Hilton, son of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton.

The island was colonised by Anthony Hilton and 80 settlers from Saint Kitts in 1628.

Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane ( Hilton ) Beiderbecke.

The amount of tear gas used to suppress the protesters was so great that it eventually made its way to the Hilton Hotel, where it disturbed Hubert Humphrey while in his shower.

Nonetheless, as historian Boyd Hilton concludes, " it is irrefutable that Melbourne's personal life was problematic.

On April 6, 1971, Shakur was shot in the stomach during a struggle with a guest at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan and was arrested on a string of charges.

The historian Boyd Hilton argues Peel knew from 1844 he was going to be deposed as Conservative leader — many of his MPs had taken to voting against him and the rupture within the party between liberals and paternalist which had been so damaging in the 1820s, but masked by the issue of reform in the 1830s was brought to the surface over the Corn Laws.

* Hilton Park ( stadium ), home of the Leigh rugby league club, was until recently known as the Coliseum

The setting for Goodbye Mr. Chips is believed to have been based on The Leys School, Cambridge, where James Hilton was a pupil ( 1915 – 18 ).

Hilton wrote upon Balgarnie's death that " Balgarnie was, I suppose, the chief model for my story.

Moon's destructiveness led to The Who being banned from hotel chains around the world, including Holiday Inn, Sheraton, and Hilton Hotels, as well as the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

" Hilton notes that Aegidius had other rivals beyond the Visgoths he needed to confront: there were Saxons in the Loire valley, Bretons under Riothamus who fought the Visigoths, " sometimes in co-operation with the Italian imperial Romans ", and other Roman factions led by the comites Paul and Arbogast.

Paige led another superb Monarchs ' staff that included fellow Hall of Famer Hilton Smith, the veteran Chet Brewer, Booker McDaniels, Jim LaMarque, and several others.

Commercial, but not residential, development accelerated rapidly in the early 2000s, when several large office complexes were constructed ; this in turn led to the establishment of other businesses, including a Hilton Hotel on South Avenue, the main thoroughfare in 2003.

Research by Rodney Hilton in the 1970s showed that the English Peasant Revolt of 1381 ( or Great Rising ) was led not by peasants, but by those who would be the most affected by increased taxation: the merchants who were neither wealthy, but not poor either.

The development of new hotels has led to what the industry has termed as a surplus in the market-especially with the addition of the Grand Harbor Hotel and a new Hilton hotel at the Dubuque Greyhound Park and Casino.

In January 1978, the Hilton Bombing damaged the glass in QVB which led to its replacement in 1979.

The girls decide to pledge the most popular and exclusive sorority at the university, Gamma Gamma, which is led by president Victoria English ( Hilton ).