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When cameramen stalked J. P. Morgan at an English-Speaking Union rally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Banker Morgan, who loves England even more than he hates having his picture taken, barked jovially: "If you must photograph me, be sure it is with a charming lady." Photophobe Morgan then posed happily with Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really...
...sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper, ruddy, wax-mustached little Mr. Bagby, 81, was not present: he had the grippe. Later he caught pneumonia. Last week he died. Oscar of the Waldorf, Banker James Speyer, old Mrs. James Roosevelt, many...
...honor of genial, grizzled Viennese Fritz Kreisler, The Bohemians, some 1,000 classical musicians, sat down to dinner at Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, put on a glittering musical evening, topped it off by confronting Fiddler Kreisler with Fiddler Albert Spalding decked out in mustache and grey bangs, looking wonderfully like the guest of the evening, and sawing at one of his tunes with confusingly Kreislerian dexterity...
Last week the National Association of Manufacturers, since 1895 the voice of U. S. big business, held its 45th Congress of American Industry. It was the best-attended Congress to date. Some 2,500 NAMembers jammed Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for the final dinner, which was the second biggest dinner* the Waldorf had ever served. Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John...