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...York Herald Tribune pounced on the story, and soon the press had found the delegates-first on the ninth and tenth floors of the Waldorf-Astoria, then at Radio City Music Hall (the Rockettes and Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed), and finally, at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, where the world planners took ringside seats for the midnight floor show...
Yale University spent seven and a half million dollars last year to educate 3,112 students. Last week the United Negro College Fund Campaign for only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich...
...Church Club's dinner last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria he said: "There is an undoubted revival of religion [in Russia], Complete freedom of worship within their churches is granted to all religions. Anti-God propaganda has been suspended, godless museums are closed, and respect for religion is encouraged. The Orthodox Church has greater freedom than it ever had under the Tsars. The churches are crowded, though many are still closed or secularized. The change in the Soviet attitude toward religion is due to the recognition that religion cannot be eradicated, that a large proportion...
...York "to be near him" while he went to make a speech, urging a Second Front, at a pro-Soviet rally in Carnegie Hall. She was with him just once during a 23-day stay, but that once, she said, involved a three-hour visit to his Waldorf-Astoria bedroom. Back in Beverly Hills, she broke into his mansion one night with a pistol, "intending to kill myself," held the gun for an hour until he talked her into bed again. Admitted by both sides: Chaplin paid her train fare both ways but did not travel with...
...asking. No less than 569 stations flatteringly responded. The $1,200 cost of the records, the New York Herald Tribune learned, was borne by an unnamed friend of Mr. Wallace. Listeners to both speech and record noted that they had been significantly tailored to their respective audiences. Omitted for Waldorf-Astoria listeners, for example, was a recorded assertion that "the present high concentration of investment banking in New York City is itself incompatible with free enterprise, for only large national corporations have access on reasonable terms to that market...