Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Starlight Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan one night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...
...dinner for the hotel owners of a dozen nations must have given pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
...Boomer dusted off bottles of Zeltinger Sonnenblick 1929, Chambertin 1923 and Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1926. The brandy was 1865, the water Poland...
Other guests there were, including Postmaster General Farley, President Merlin Hall Aylesworth of National Broadcasting, Dirigibilist Hugo Eckener and a few of Mr. Boomer's fellow Manhattan hotelkeepers. But the majority were European hotelmen who bore tales of lean years and no profits. There were a few notable exceptions, who reported good business, but the general tenor of the conference was so sad that most meetings were closed to the Press...
...Duce was well represented at Mr. Boomer's dinner. Retiring president of IHA was Cesare Pinchetti, on his first visit to the U. S. Like his father before him Signor Pinchetti owns Rome's Hotel Bristol, where visiting royalties used to stay. He speaks for the Italian hotel industry in the National Council of the Corporative State (see p. 23). Short, stout and 46, he was more excited last week over the prospect of seeing Niagara Falls than over the Waldorf dinner...