Word: waldorf
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...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel one afternoon this week, nearly 1,000 managers and teachers from all over the far-flung Arthur Murray dancing-studio empire gathered to learn a new dance that, vaguely resembles a rumba done in quick time by partners with one game leg apiece. The dance was the merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots...
...last week's speech to the Foreign Policy Association at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Secretary Dulles in effect asked where Mother Russia figures in the announced policies of Party Leader Nikita Khrushchev. "What we see," he said, "is in part an elemental, personal struggle for power. But also one can perceive the outlines of a basic policy difference. There must in Russia be those who are primarily concerned with the welfare, the security and the greatness of the Soviet Union and its people...
...annual March of Dimes fashion show in Manhattan, well-known ladies from all walks of U.S. life dressed them selves in newly designed getups, paraded about the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria to help raise money for a final victory over polio. Among the models were austerely beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (who displayed what Couturier Charles James called "the highest bust line in 125 years"), socially registered Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, TV Star Margaret Truman, and split-bustled sometime Stripteaser-Novelist Gypsy Rose Lee. Bubbled Gypsy: "I don't worry about shoes. When they start looking...
...through the 301 pages of The Drama of Albert, Einstein, a book sent to her by an admirer, winsome Songstress Dinah Shore, now burbling her old favorites (e.g., It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House and Blues in the Night) at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, ventured a timid literary criticism. "I've concluded, honey," sighed she, "that it's easier to understand relatives than relativity...
Challenger Wolfson was not idle. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Wolfson pressagents trotted out a new associate, Frank Leahy, ex-Notre Dame football coach. Leahy joined the Wolfson Montgomery Ward stockholders' committee because, he said, "I believe so wholeheartedly in Louis Wolfson." Leahy said that he owns about 1,000 Ward shares (paper value: $82,625), but seemed unsure about his job with Wolfson. Said he: "To be real honest with you, my duties haven't been defined...