How Webster University's Nuns Charmed Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton Into A Big Gift
St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio
December 3, 201916m 52s
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Show Notes
By the mid-1960s, Conrad Hilton’s brief marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor was decades behind him.
The hotel magnate was worth an estimated $100 million. But he was also notoriously cheap — with both his ex-wives and his children. So how did a pair of St. Louis nuns persuade Hilton to give them more than $1.5 million? As Webster University professor emeritus Allen Carl Larson discovered, it took three years of correspondence, a shared faith and a deep mutual respect.