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...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
Last week, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dr. Myerson displayed to a gathering of top-flight U. S. dentists his new invention: transparent-tipped, natural-looking false teeth set in ruddy gums of a new plastic material. Exhibit A was a beaming colleague, fitted with a well-worn set of brownish, irregular teeth. "How becoming they are," exclaimed Dr. Myerson, "to the rugged character time has produced in his face!" As one man, the dentists rose and applauded the teeth, applauded bold Dr. Myerson...
Died. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, 80, French adventurer-engineer, who engineered (from Room 1162 of the old Waldorf-Astoria) the Panama Revolution of 1903 which paved the way for U. S. acquisition of the Canal Zone; in Paris...
Last week, before the American News paper Publishers Association at Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Bill Knudsen blew off a cloud of steam over the strained relations of big business and Government in the U. S., let go the biggest puff on the subject of big pay for industrialists. Excerpt...
This broadcast, the first ever shared by two heads of state, and the first in which Queen Wilhelmina had spoken to others than her subjects, was heard in Manhattan by some 1,000 people gathered at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; elsewhere by smaller gatherings in perhaps 500 U. S. cities. To the Manhattan luncheon meeting went the British and Belgian Ambassadors to the U. S., the French Consul General, the Netherlands Minister, many a churchman. Chairman was that best-beloved of bumbling speakers, lank Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Episcopal Church (who attributes his oratorical lack...