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...finance. He is chairman of the Empire State Building Corp., is the No. 2 power in the Hilton hotel chain, and controls the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (with two associates). With Hotelman Conrad Hilton, he bought Chicago's Palmer House and with Hilton and some associates, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. On top of all this, Crown built his Materials Service Corp. of Chicago into the biggest supplier of construction materials in the U.S. Crown has achieved much of his success by a simple method: he has boldly staked his money on enterprises that would grey the hair...
...Soviet Plan. Before an audience of 2,500 in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Eisenhower, erect and spruce in white tie & tails, began by analyzing Joseph Stalin's recent pronouncement on the state of world Communism (TIME, Oct. 13). The destruction of "imperialism" (i.e., the democratic powers) is still the stated aim of Stalin. The purposes of Soviet policy, said Eisenhower, always remain the same: only the "plan for action is always undergoing revision." What is the current plan? Having brought 800 million people under its sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union...
Seven thousand surgeons swarmed last week through Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Gathered for the annual clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons, they packed room after room to hear technical papers read and discussed. They watched dozens of colored movies (Cine Clinics, they called them) of operations ranging from standard procedures through the specialties to the spectacular. They trooped off by bus and motorcade to 61 hospitals in New York City's five boroughs to watch "wet clinics," as they call the real thing...
When Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf took over the University of California football team in 1947, the job held no great promise of security. Of his 21 predecessors, ten had coached for one season. But Pappy is still at California. In five seasons, his teams have won 46 games, tied one, lost six games (not including three Rose Bowl contests...
...Rockne fans may still believe in pep talks, but Strategist Waldorf, no orator, says that "the day of the inspired locker-room oration has long since passed." He pins his hopes on "long hours of hard work on the practice field...