Word: waldorf-astoria
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This week Jacob Malik will celebrate the end of his month as president of the U.N.'s Security Council with the customary dinner given by the retiring president to his colleagues. The affair will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. "We'll have a good meal," predicted one delegate last week, "some irrelevant talk-and the party will break up about 45 minutes after coffee...
...Hotels Statler Co., Inc., thought it was time for a change; the nation's growth had made the caution of hotelmen shortsighted. Last week he signed construction contracts for a new $20 million Statler in downtown Los Angeles. It will be the biggest new U.S. hotel since the Waldorf-Astoria...
...income as substantial as most of its customers. Last week) 61-year-old Childs decided to upgrade its food and its balance sheet. For "more than $2,000,000" it bought upwards of 90% of the stock in Sherry's from Mrs. Lucius M. Boomer, widow of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's longtime board chairman. (Boomer founded the confectionery company with the late Louis Sherry after Sherry's fashionable Fifth Avenue restaurant closed down during Prohibition...
...when called upon to speak at a huge banquet in his honor at the old Waldorf-Astoria, he was terrified. He mumbled a few ungrammatical phrases and sat down. Then he went back to his hotel and wept with rage. Next day he hired one_ Madame Amanda, a Metropolitan Opera voice coach, to teach him how to talk. He got Damon Runyon to write him a speech. He memorized it, studied grammar, went on a 40-night lecture tour (at $1,000 a night) and conquered his fears...
...scheme, for instance, which boasts 63 different shades of green and encompasses walls, rugs, the bellhops' emerald & lemon uniforms and the grass-hued ink with which guests sign the register. McCarthy makes all public announcements concerning the hotel (George Lindholm, whom he hired away from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as manager, resigned quietly last week...