Word: waldorf-astoria
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...eight musicians piled their instruments on the stage of the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, and set to work tuning them -with a sledge hammer. This did no particular damage, because the "instruments" were made from 50-gallon steel oil drums. Tuned up, the Trinidad Invaders Steel Band gave a surprised New York Herald Tribune Forum audience something far more harmonious to listen to last week than the clangorous world affairs they had been discussing...
...YORK, N.Y. Oct. 23, 1951--Two College seniors and a Radcliffe graduate student spoke before an audience of 2,500 high school and college students this afternoon in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria at the second session of this year's New York Herald Tribune Forum...
...interests of mental health, the Boston press all but cleared the Red Sox off their front pages and substituted MacArthur. Coverage was detailed from his departure over a red carpet at New York's Waldorf-Astoria and included even a description of the general's meals (on Wednesday his supper consisted of a pitcher of orange juice...
...interests of mental health, the Boston press all but cleared the Red Sox off their front pages and substituted MacArthur. Coverage was detailed from his departure over a red carpet at New York's Waldorf-Astoria and included even a description of the general's meals (on Wednesday his supper consisted of a pitcher of orange juice...
Next, there was the "Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace" in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria in March 1949, where U.S. left-wingers applauded the U.S.S.R.'s "fight for peace." Cried U.S. Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty) Odets: "I cannot blame the Soviet Union because an apocalyptic beast is running loose in our world today, and its name is money, money, money...