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...suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, the Prophet told newsmen why he had come to New York...
What trips off a singer's tongue often falls flat on the printed page. Yet time and again the aging (61) pixy of the Waldorf Towers flashes out with a line of verse that might be Ogden Nash at his snippiest or T. S. Eliot at his youngest. In one respect, however, Lardner was clearly right. When Porter tries to be sentimental about love (which is perhaps half the time), his music may be convincing but his words sound as invincibly phony as Porfirio Rubirosa reading Emily Dickinson to a debutante...
...semitropical countries (Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay called it a "national calamity") before it seeped into the U.S. YANKS DIG THAT MAMBO BEAT, Variety's front page announced last June. It ran like quicksilver through the brassier ballrooms, and even rolled into such tony spots as Manhattan s Waldorf-Astoria...
...hopped on a plane, flew from California to New York to talk to "the people who really counted"-Mrs. Statler and other big family stockholders. Hilton's secret weapon: his argument that he could run the Statler chain better than anyone else. Living in Hilton's Waldorf Towers in Manhattan, Mrs. Statler had watched and admired the way Hilton did business, and was inclined to agree...
Died. Giulio Gelardi, 80, Italian-born onetime manager of some of the world's most famed international hotels (New York's Waldorf-Astoria, London's Claridge's and Savoy, Rome's Excelsior); of cancer; in London...