Word: waldorf
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...night before this convocation, president emeritus of Columbia, Dwight Eisenhower, will deliver the main address at the national bicentennial dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria...
Thus inspired, the Democrats left the Waldorf, determined to act on their premonition that, as a Republican town, Washington's days are numbered...
...again. By then, they had moved to New York City, a Democratic town. It was Harry Truman's 70th birthday. By way of celebration (and, incidentally, to benefit the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.) a cut-rate $70-a-plate dinner was held in the sprawling Waldorf-Astoria ballroom...
Schine rarely ate in Adams, preferring Boston hotels, particularly the Statler. In his last two years he spent most of his weekends in New York, and, according to one roommate, had a room reserved at the Waldorf Astoria. Much of his activity on these weekends was reportedly devoted to either chasing or being chased by women, most of them show-girls. On one occasion he even chased as far as Hollywood, where he had some well-publicized flirtatious with one of Joan Bennett's daughters and starlet Piper Laurie...
...Albert-Margo act is something new for Waldorf-goers, who are accustomed to such chic acts as French Singer Patachou, Pop Songstress Martha Wright, Spanish Dancer José Greco. Eddie and Margo generate an old-fashioned vaudeville atmosphere, mixed with overtones of marital give & take. The audiences like it, and when Eddie hollers, "There's no business like show business," he seems to be having the best time he's had in years...