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...Suite 37A of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, a Japanese and an American stood arm in arm, beaming. "Glad to see you. It's been a long time. Glad to see you," said Douglas MacArthur, 75, General of the Army and chairman of the board of Sperry Rand. "We don't just want to reminisce about the past." said Mamoru Shigemitsu, 68, Foreign Minister of Japan. "We want to talk about the future." Ten years before, to the day, they had met aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Shigemitsu to sign the surrender of Imperial Japan, MacArthur...
Frank's income whooshed up from $750 to $3,500 a week, and kept on going. In 1943 he made more than $1,500,000. In 1944, while Governor Dewey, the Republican candidate for the presidency, was greeting a crowd gathered in front of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Democrat Sinatra made a point of passing by. Two minutes later the governor was facing a handful of hard-core Republicans, while almost everybody else was following Frankie Boy down Park Avenue...
...after an operation, he was back. Two fingers of his left hand were still stiff, but, said he: "I can curl them around a bat handle, and that's what counts." At a gathering of baseball writers not long ago, the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astotfia resounded with a special song in his honor (to the tune of O Sole...
...Whom the Bell Tolls. In Manhattan, Milwaukee Toy Merchant Frederick G. Osborne Jr. sued the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for $500,000, declared that he had lost that amount when he failed to keep a business appointment because the desk clerk failed to call him at 9 a.m. as he had requested...
Still ruddy and erect at 80, Herbert Clark Hoover went up from Washington last week to apartment 31A in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, and packed for a long fishing trip to the California redwood country. He had just finished a 21-month tour of duty as chairman of the second Hoover Commission to study the operations of the U.S. Government. A vice chairman was authorized but never elected-and never needed. Hoover personally recruited each task-force member, supervised the 525-man staff, ran every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports (Legal...