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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, 750 physicians, medical scientists, drugmakers and wholesale druggists attended what was called a National Conference on Planning for War and Postwar Medical Services. Apparent purposes of the meeting: 1) to oppose the trend toward state socialized medicine; 2) to forestall a postwar collapse of the drug market like that which followed World...
When a dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria on Dec. 10 replaced the annual Stockholm award of the Nobel prizes (discontinued since 1939), it was found that 28 laureates now live in the U.S., counting eleven who have recently arrived, most of them to escape Hitler. Eleven attended the dinner...
...average nightclubber with the intricacy and speed of their steps. Shrewd Xavier Cugat gradually slowed up the professionals, lured the amateurs to try a step or two. After five years of spade work, he had made Los Angeles the most rumbatic of U.S. cities, and Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria beckoned with a fat contract...
...finishing off his eleventh annual engagement at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. His latest Hollywood musical, You Were Never Lovelier (starring onetime Cugat Dancer Rita Cansino, now known as Rita Hayworth), had just finished its second hit week on Broadway. The rumba business was booming loudly...
...first time since infantile paralysis struck her in June 1941, Operatic Soprano Marjorie Lawrence appeared before an audience: 600 guests at a Metropolitan Opera Guild luncheon in Manhattan. She arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria's ballroom in a wheelchair, sang from a settee. Lily Pons fell victim to the singer's bogey, laryngitis, canceled a concert in Houston. Artemisa Elias Calles, black-eyed, 28-year-old daughter of Mexico's ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles, made her debut as a professional dancer in Manhattan, gave flamenco and Spanish dances in a floor show at the Hotel Pierre...