Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about $100,000 a year. (He now owns two song-publishing firms and three horses...
...guinea pig was a volunteer-Fred Learned, onetime farm editor, now an employe of the American Cancer Society. Two days before the big banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he had taken a dose of radioactive iodine; now handsome, scholarly Dr. Robley D. Evans, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would demonstrate how the substance, a product of atomic research, could combat cancer of the thyroid...
...Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...evening last week 1,000 disciplined men & women, who had been whistled up by the Communist-dominated Greater New York Council of the C.I.O., marched back & forth past the revolving doors of the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, 2,000 men & women in evening dress ate their way through Fumet of Gumbo Chervil, Native Guinea Hen, Bombe Glacé Britannia, and sat back to hear the Great Debater. Winston Churchill had made a Fulton (Mo.) profession of his democratic faith. Joseph Stalin had written the answer that joined the issue between two social philosophies more directly and authoritatively than it had ever been joined before...