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...self-made millionaire like Sloan and Kettering, Herbert Hoover has long since dropped the daily gym exercises that won him fame as head of the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Still, his energy seems almost unlimited. He rises early, usually around 6:30, is at his desk in his Waldorf-Astoria office by 9:30 a.m., directing a platoon of secretaries and research assistants, writing manuscripts (most notably and recently, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson) in longhand. Though he naps for an hour or two after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace: he works seven days a week...
During his 50-year regency over the cuisine of New York's 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...
...baking-contest prizes, many of them for gooey concoctions that would dull even the sweet tooth of a teenager. Last week, in a pleasant change of menu, the grand prize in Pillsbury's annual national baking contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte spread with chocolate surprise frosting, double date devil's food cake or Golden Gate dessert bars...
...before the gourmets and gourmands-eel from Canada, white asparagus from Belgium, kangaroo steak from Down Under, smoked Ostyepky sheep's-milk cheese from Czechoslovakia. The occasion was the fourth annual Fancy Food and Confection Show last week, and buyers marched into Manhattan's caviar-class Waldorf-Astoria to examine 20,000 food products-four times as many as last year...
Whisked from the White House lawn to Washington National Airport by a Marine Corps helicopter, President Eisenhower flew to New York in Columbine III, sped to Park Avenue's Waldorf-Astoria in his bubble-top Lincoln. In his 35th-floor...