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City police said that they are attempting to connect several cases of vandalism which occured between 11 p.m. Monday and 2 a.m. yesterday. Eyewitnesses reported that at approximately 11 p.m., a group of four left the Waldorf Cafeteria, one on crutches. The crutch was allegedly used to hammer some letters from a neon sign above the nearby Phillips Book Store...
With some 80 of his World War II comrades in arms gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria, little-faded General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, now board chairman of Sperry Rand Corp., observed his 78th birthday. After the banquet, the assembled brass watched a nostalgic film of the Pacific war, heard an Army-supplied double quartet blend voices in Old Soldiers Never Die. "At my age," allowed the general, "every birthday is a challenge...
...witness stand was Ray Lawson, 71, who as Canadian consul general in New York from 1953 to 1955 was the prime mover behind Canada House. Ferreting about, the M.P.s wondered why the Canadian Club, long installed in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...
First off, Stevenson went to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and a meeting of the New York County Lawyers' Association to paint, in terms of his "greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that...
...same symphony on LP). A better prospect for a new revolution in recordings : sound-plus-picture. Engineers are now working on a disk that will be keyed to a picture to be played on a television screen. The audiophile will see Harry Belafonte singing at the Waldorf as he listens to him, will watch the great operas unfold onstage as the music pours from his phonograph...