Word: waldorf
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...shoulder, Ronnie signed on the dotted line. Cracked a sportswriter: "Harvey acts as if the kid's first name is Fort." As a freshman, Ronnie turned in a creditable job in the classroom and on the football field. But at varsity practice this spring, Head Coach Lynn Waldorf still showed an uncommon fondness for his holdover varsity quarterback, Paul Larson, who happened to be last season's leading collegiate ground-gainer. Father Harvey filed a loud and public demurrer. His boy was not appreciated, he said. What was more, all those fine promises were turning...
...loser in the deal, Coach Waldorf, took the blow philosophically, even left a candle in the window in the event Ronnie Knox changed his mind again."Sure we'd take Ronnie back," said Pappy. "But let's transfer the old man to U.C.L.A...
...Carr told me a few days later that he didn't think I should feel badly about the way I was put out of the car because he said I should have seen the way Senator McCarthy left the car a few blocks later"-in front of the Waldorf-Astoria...
...nation's most venerable poets, New England's patriarchal Robert (Birches) Frost, 79, and the Midwest's lean-jawed Carl (Chicago) Sandburg, 76, looking more than ever like blood brothers, showed up at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for some new laurels. To them and eight other U.S. authors went awards from the Limited Editions Club for having written "books which seem most likely to survive as classics...
...choir, O'Malley went along as his assistant director. He spent his spare time at the Metropolitan Opera and his spare cash on Victrola records. On the side he served as choirmaster of St. Gregory's Church, and staged concerts in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. He was just 17 then. "I had a lot of nerve," he admits...