Word: waldorf
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...waiters at the Waldorf-Astoria, the Stork, or even Maxim's, serve no greater variety of customers than the countermen at John's Diner on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. John's, as a matter of fact, has the edge-it stays open all night. But despite their deep, egg-spattered knowledge of human eccentricity, nobody in John's had the slightest inkling that a new and glorious page in the diner's history was about to be written when William ("The Laughing Bandit") Kampi lowered himself to a stool at 3:30 a.m. one morning...
Back at work in his Kansas City office after his whirl in the East, Harry Truman found that he had failed to turn in his hotel keys, asked his secretary to "mail these back to the Waldorf-Astoria...
After this re-entry into the political arena, Harry Truman took a train to New York City to join Mrs. Truman and Margaret. He checked into suite 32-A in the Waldorf Towers, directly above Herbert Hoover's suite (31-A) and five floors directly below the suite (37-A) of Douglas MacArthur. He dropped down to the Waldorf barbershop to get a haircut, and let photographers snap him as he is rarely seen-without glasses...
...committee's $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Manhattan. With the President of the U.S. as the star attraction, the committee got more $100 customers (3,900) than any hotel ballroom could hold, so it hired two hotel ballrooms, one at the Astor and one at the Waldorf-Astoria. Ike agreed to give his speech twice-"pitch a doubleheader...
After his repeat performance at the Waldorf, the President followed his Secret Service convoy to Pennsylvania Station. The presidential train pulled out shortly after midnight, spent part of the night at a quiet siding in New Jersey, pulled into Washington's Union Station at 7:30 a.m. Ike's first White House appointment of the day was scheduled...