Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's 1½-day New York trip also had its less stirring political moments. Some 600 business and professional men and Democratic notables, calling themselves the President's Club, chipped in $1,000 each to throw a birthday party for Kennedy at the Waldorf-Astoria. He would not be 46 for six more days, but it was a good excuse to come to the aid of the Democratic Party's chronic deficit with an estimated $600,000. During the dinner, a smiling Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair...
...mood of reminiscence and evaluation. Theologian Tillich was summing up TIME'S 40th anniversary party, held last week in New York City. "All these people." as Tillich described them, were 284 subjects of cover stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party provided a unique opportunity for businessman to meet musician, for architect to meet politician, for entertainer to meet scientist, for general to meet churchman, for physician to meet sportsman. "The point of this party." said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, "is the people...
...combination of circumstances, energy and talent, are noteworthy and newsworthy names, and their faces have been on the cover of TIME. They also are among the nearly 300 TIME cover subjects who have accepted our invitation to dinner Monday, May 6, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, to celebrate TIME'S 40th anniversary...
...family. Cassius said no, so Reynolds told him to go out and get some. He picked out a $250 watch for his mother, a $100 watch for his father, a $100 watch for his brother. Still wearing his gold medal around his neck, Clay ate at the Waldorf-Astoria ("The steaks were $7.95." says Martin, "and Cassius always had two"), toured Greenwich Village looking for beatniks, and whooped delightedly when passers-by recognized him. Tapping a startled cabby on the shoulder, he said: "Why, I bet even you know that I'm Cassius Clay, the great fighter." Then...
...sang Stormy Weather, it never quite sounded right coming from anyone else. But after 28 years of carrying a smoky torch from Harlem to Hollywood, Lena Home, still sultry at 45, finds the flame burning lower. Soon after she finishes her six-week run at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Lena says she will give up nightclub singing altogether. "It's stifling to keep singing these silly boy-girl songs all your life. All the drama has moved from Broadway to Mississippi. Why be trivial in times like these?" Her idea: "Match bitternesses" with Essayist James Baldwin...