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...daily Trib columns and Sunday column in This Week (circ. 10,638,00) have brought in thousands of letters (one-third of them from men), and made her the best-known food editor in the U.S. "Nobody writes about food," says Claudius Philippe, food boss of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, "with more enthusiasm and literary quality...
...hardly out that Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell was planning to exclude the Duchess of Windsor from her forthcoming "Four-Duchess Ball" before café society reporters began circulating a statement reportedly made by the duchess: "It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor!" From her Waldorf suite, Elsa denied she was even thinking of giving a ball, retorted: "Anyway, it's my prerogative to drop a duchess if I want to. I'm tired of duchesses-some duchesses...
...others: Chicago's 3,000-room Conrad Hilton, Manhattan's 2,000-room Waldorf-Astoria, Chicago's 2,268-room Palmer House...
While in New York, the editors also presented a copy to former President Harry S. Truman in his suite at the Waldorf Towers. Until then, Truman had been forced to read his news from an Associated Press ticker five blocks away...
...next morning continued resolutely to Philadelphia and New York. This week, in the space of 48 hours, they attended Greek Orthodox services at Manhattan's Hellenic Cathedral, lunched with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, rode up Broadway in a ticker-tape storm, lunched at the Waldorf with Mayor Impellitteri and 1,500 other New Yorkers, accepted an honorary degree (King Paul can add Doctor of Humane Letters to his many titles) from Columbia University, dined with U.N. officials twice and attended two receptions. Ahead of them loomed a formidable five-week schedule that will take them...