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Children need doctors, and children are everywhere. Last week, for the first time since 1937, some 1,800 pediatricians from all over the world (59 nations) met in Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Their medical findings confirmed some things that most people already knew: undernourishment and tuberculosis are rampant among children throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. But the meeting also produced some new, surprising findings...
Died. Lucius Boomer, 68, boss of Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; of a heart ailment; in Hamar, Norway, where he was vacationing (see BUSINESS...
...decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria. By 1929, harddriving, handsome Innkeeper Boomer thought he knew just what people wanted in a hotel...
Same night, same city, New York County Republicans dined more austerely at the Waldorf-Astoria. For $50 a plate, 1,200 diners got stuffed tomato, sirloin of beef, nuts and coffee, and a speech by Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
Patiño rode out World War II just as easily-first in a six-room suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, later in the Plaza in Buenos Aires. It was in the Plaza this week that Simon Patino quietly died at 86. He will be buried-for the time being-in Buenos Aires. Later he may be carried to the homeland he had not seen for 23 years, to the blue marble mausoleum built for him on the harsh Andean uplands...