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...famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Oscar Tschirky-Oscar of the Waldorf to thousands of epic epicures -rose to such gastronomic eminence that his memory endures in menus, viands and appetites the world over. A greeter, Oscar in his white chef's cap stood figuratively astride the gourmet banquet table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef, London-born Philippe migrated to the U.S. in 1929, stirred soup...
With an executive's shrewd touch, Waldorf Vice President Philippe handled banquets for the world's great, found ways to bring hungry hordes, good food and hot plates together, cannily governed his hotel empire of seven restaurants, 30 banquet rooms, a liveried army of some 600, and the boudoir snacks of 2,000 guests. With the accountant's sure hand, he also dispensed to suppliers annual orders for $200,000 in silver, china and glass, $350,000 in furniture, $2,500,000 in food and $1,000,000 in drink. In these commissions, Philippe had the decisive...
Fifteen countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be represented by 60 to 80 delegates, among them Frank Pace, Lester B. Pearson, Paul-Henri Spaak, and John Fcster Dulles. Spaak and Dulles will be the featured speakers of the week, addressing a banquet at the Sheraton Hotel a week from Saturday...
Thursday will be taken up by a trip to Newport, R.I., where the delegates will be taken out to sea on U.S. and Canadian destroyers to watch the America Cup Challenge. A news conference and panel-discussion open to the public are scheduled for Friday, and Saturday's banquet will close the meeting...
...stream-of-consciousness-ism and many another esthetic "ism" spring, obviously. from sources akin to those of Rousseau, Satie, Jarry and Apollinaire. Author Shattuck tries hard-and on the whole unsuccessfully-to cram all these tricks into a single bag. Despite the hearty, festive ring of the title, the "Banquet Years," says Author Shattuck, were essentially morbid. In his view they show the connection between modern art and a world that had lost its God and sprawled on the earth with many a gaping hole knocked through it. While the attempt to make four eccentric figures speak for an entire...