Word: waldorf-astoria
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...Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was hung with white-dipped smilax, pink lights winking among the leaves, for the 19th annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. On stage, young ladies dressed in white and escorted by formally dressed young men moved rapidly between rows of tall tapers, curtsied, and made their way past a ringside table where sat a handsome woman who was, in a sense, their hostess. Watching the debutantes with intense interest, Jacqueline Cochran, famed flyer and businesswoman, recalled that when she was 18 she had already been working for ten years...
Indefatigable Evangelist Billy Graham paused at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel long enough to receive the Salvation Army's seventh annual citation for his "boundless spirit and unfailing faith." Then, after announcing that he is off to Europe in March for a six-month preaching tour, he headed for Georgia to relax for three days at Augusta's National Golf Club, a favorite course of President Eisenhower. Asked if he planned to play a round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good...
Many a U.S. manufacturer of sewing machines, ceramics or textiles turns purple when he sees imitations of his wares with a "Made in Japan" label. But last week two top Administration spokesmen told some 2,000 businessmen at the 41st National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria that the "Made in Japan" label should appear far oftener in U.S. stores...
...white-haired but boyish-looking priest in a knee-length clerical coat strode to the dais in the Waldorf-Astoria's Jade Room one afternoon last week, took a soldierly stance between the grand piano and a bowl of pink-and-white chrysanthemums, and faced the expectant crowd. Scotland's Roman Catholic Father Sydney MacEwan, 45, started to sing in a small voice that recalled much of the bewitching sweetness of the late John McCormack. He sang the centuries-old songs of plaintive and merry love, of the sea and of the rugged Hebrides, while mink-jacketed matrons...
Back in Manhattan for the second time this autumn, Japan's peppery Premier Shigeru Yoshida, taking time off from the rough and tumble of Japanese politics to make a good-will tour, hurried to the Waldorf-Astoria suite of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he had not seen since the general was relieved of his Far Eastern command job in 1951. Before retiring for a private, hour-long chat, the two posed beamingly for photographers, whom MacArthur told to caption their pictures: "Two old friends." This week Yoshida's plans called for a mission to Washington, where...